{"id":10444,"date":"2014-01-24T12:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2014-01-23T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:28:57","slug":"10444","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/10444\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Swiss Don&#8217;t Like Their National Psalm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10445\" alt=\"swiss yodelers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swiss-yodelers.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swiss-yodelers.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swiss-yodelers-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Star Spangled Banner&#8217; has been the US national anthem since 1931, and &#8220;God Save The Queen&#8221; has been around since 1745. The Swiss, after having a &#8216;National Psalm&#8217; for just 33 years, are already looking for something new:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8216;original&#8217; Swiss national anthem was written in 1811, but set to the tune of &#8220;God Save The Queen&#8221;. This caused some understandable confusion at sporting events, and was scrapped.<\/li>\n<li>In 1841 a Swiss monk composed a hymn that became a hit, and surged to popularity, becoming the &#8216;Swiss Psalm&#8217; in&#8230;1981.<\/li>\n<li>The lyrics of the Psalm are now causing an issue. In a secular nation, singing about God (plus mountains and thunderstorms) feels a little uncomfortable. Though, most Swiss don&#8217;t actually know all the lyrics anyway.<\/li>\n<li>And so there is to be a contest to choose a new anthem. With a jury of 30 including yodelling experts, a slam poet, a theology professor and a rapper, but even if they can agree the government may not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, check out the Economist over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2013\/12\/economist-explains-9?fsrc=rss\">here<\/a>, or the BBC over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-23550915\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2013\/12\/economist-explains-9?fsrc=rss\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Star Spangled Banner&#8217; has been the US national anthem since 1931, and &#8220;God Save The Queen&#8221; has been around since 1745. The Swiss, after having a &#8216;National Psalm&#8217; for just 33 years, are already looking for something new: The &#8216;original&#8217; Swiss national anthem was written in 1811, but set to the tune of &#8220;God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swiss-yodelers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10448,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions\/10448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}