{"id":79,"date":"2007-08-22T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T03:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/08\/22\/a-voice-from-heaven\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T03:13:02","slug":"a-voice-from-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2007\/08\/22\/a-voice-from-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"A voice from heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" align=\"left\" width=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/dynimg.rte.ie\/0000e7b410dr.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Paul Potts singing\" height=\"202\" style=\"width: 269px; height: 202px\" title=\"Paul Potts singing\" \/>Paul Potts worked in a mobile phone warehouse in South Wales and went about largely unnoticed, until recently at least. His appearance on the TV show <em>Britain&#8217;s got Talent<\/em> raised some eyebrows and he did not seem the kind of person &#8216;cultured&#8217; enough to be able to sing opera.<\/p>\n<p>The first round performance was amazing to watch. On the stage walks a man who lacks self-confidence. The music begins and suddenly there is a transformation &#8230; Without wishing to be unkind, it is as though the beast becomes the beauty.<\/p>\n<p>The video clip of this touches me deeply every time. I commend it to anyone who would like to see some &#8216;good news&#8217; as a change to the usual diet of news on our media services. You can find it on YouTube <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=9oxTy7KIAaA\" title=\"Paul Potts First Round\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Potts worked in a mobile phone warehouse in South Wales and went about largely unnoticed, until recently at least. His appearance on the TV show Britain&#8217;s got Talent raised some eyebrows and he did not seem the kind of person &#8216;cultured&#8217; enough to be able to sing opera. The first round performance was amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}