{"id":11883,"date":"2021-12-19T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2021-12-19T06:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T11:28:56","slug":"virtual-advent-tour-2021-day-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11883","title":{"rendered":"virtual advent tour 2021: day 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/VAT21-400.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/VAT21-400.jpeg\" alt=\"Virtual Advent Tour 2021 badge -- 400 px\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/VAT21-400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/VAT21-400-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Folks, we&#8217;re down to the home stretch, with Christmas now hanging out there at the end of this week. I hope you&#8217;re feeling good about things and that Omicron isn&#8217;t affecting your plans at all. (I&#8217;ve started double-masking in indoor spaces and have decided to give a pass to indoor activities, like the movie sneak preview I was going to attend on Friday, until after I get back from Connecticut. I desperately do not want to miss a second Christmas with my parents and figure these are some small sacrifices in the short-term.)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of my folks, behind today&#8217;s door is another post from my Dear Old Dad, whose got your Christmas dinner trivia question set for you:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w9QLn7gM-hY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><center><strong>Most popular Christmas song the year you were born <\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I know what you\u2019ve been wondering this week \u2013- Wonder what the most popular Christmas song was the year I was born.  Thought that I\u2019d help you out a bit by sharing the name of the website that has the information.   <\/p>\n<p>In our house, growing up meant sharing life among six siblings. As the oldest kid I got the best and worst of it all, but at Christmas time, it was always the best.  I was the first to get a record player of my own and pretty much first dibs on any 45 that came into the house.  I was the first to get the top-selling Christmas record of all time.  I can claim no credit for this.  It was the collaboration of Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby and a million military men and women all dreaming of a White Christmas.  It became and remains the top selling record [single] of all time. <\/p>\n<p>To find out the most popular Christmas song during the year of your birth, simply pick your birth year from the menu at <a href=\"https:\/\/playback.fm\/christmas-song\">#1 Most Popular Christmas Song by Year generator on playback.fm<\/a>.  Have fun.  Merry Christmas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, again, DOD! I have to admit I was surprised by mine &#8212; a German hit, re-released in English, from an artist whose most recent record had been named after a vegetable. The mid-&#8217;70s were a weird time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks, we&#8217;re down to the home stretch, with Christmas now hanging out there at the end of this week. I hope you&#8217;re feeling good about things and that Omicron isn&#8217;t affecting your plans at all. 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