{"id":10859,"date":"2020-12-13T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10859"},"modified":"2020-12-13T04:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T09:33:58","slug":"virtual-advent-tour-2020-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10859","title":{"rendered":"virtual advent tour 2020: day 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020VAT400px.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020VAT400px.jpeg\" alt=\"2020 Virtual Advent Tour blog button\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020VAT400px.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020VAT400px-300x195.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Happy third Sunday of Advent! I will be honest: Gaudete Sunday is the only one of the four I routinely remember, because it&#8217;s, to my knowledge, the only one with a carol specifically associated with it. For a song that charted in the U.K., there are surprisingly few versions of it. But I found this fun version of four Greek teens singing it in a stairwell:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cn9oi_UCi3w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, off on the tour! <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondstrangenewwords.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/virtual-advent-tour-2020-st-lucy.html\">Jo Kay of Beyond Strange New Words<\/a> has today&#8217;s post, featuring another event from the Christian calendar.<\/p>\n<p>See you back here bright and early tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy third Sunday of Advent! I will be honest: Gaudete Sunday is the only one of the four I routinely remember, because it&#8217;s, to my knowledge, the only one with a carol specifically associated with it. 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