{"id":10898,"date":"2020-12-24T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10898"},"modified":"2020-12-24T07:35:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T12:35:23","slug":"virtual-advent-tour-2020-day-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10898","title":{"rendered":"virtual advent tour 2020: day 24"},"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 Christmas Eve! I hope you&#8217;re nearly done with the running around and are ready to begin celebrating, however that looks for you this year. Things here in D.C. aren&#8217;t quite done, but they&#8217;re rapidly approaching good enough. And that&#8217;s maybe all I can hope for in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ITun82HuvC8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some of us believe there was a real baby two-plus thousand years ago who was the Light. Others believe the darkness of the season and the soul is combatted by physical and metaphysical light and love. Whatever your school of thought, I hope you can find the reason we&#8217;ve spent the past 24 days marking the season within yourself. I wish that for each of us, because there&#8217;s a lot of darkness out there in the world right now and it can be so easy to be swept away by it.<\/p>\n<p>Our final Virtual Advent Tour post comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/the-ravelld-sleave.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/until-then-well-have-to-muddle-through.html\">Bridget at The Ravell&#8217;d Sleave<\/a>, as it often does. She&#8217;s got a Christmas message for you. Read it again tomorrow, too, if you&#8217;re struggling.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all, folks! Thanks once again to <a href=\"http:\/\/raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com\">raidergirl3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/askatknits.com\">Kat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/compassionknit.wordpress.com\">kathy b<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/randomduck.com\">Rudi<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectretort.blogspot.com\/\">Constance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/readerbuzz.blogspot.com\">Deb Nance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theintrepidreader.com\/\">Marg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\">Chick<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondstrangenewwords.blogspot.com\">Jo Kay<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/the-ravelld-sleave.blogspot.com\">Bridget<\/a> for such wonderful posts and for sharing themselves with us and to you for reading along. Merry Christmas! Happy holidays! May the peace and the force and even the joy be with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Christmas Eve! 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