{"id":6124,"date":"2015-12-04T03:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T08:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T17:12:39","slug":"advent-day-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6124","title":{"rendered":"advent: day four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the first day you get content from someone besides me with the beginning of the actual tour portion of the Virtual Advent Tour. Visit Molly at <a href=\"http:\/\/revisinglifeafter50.org\">Revising Life after 50<\/a> today for her family&#8217;s recipe for making <a href=\"http:\/\/revisinglifeafter50.org\/2015\/12\/04\/totoro-family-recipes-gingerbread-houses\/\">gingerbread houses<\/a>. (Now is where I confess that I&#8217;ve never made a gingerbread house and SO want to. Thanks, Molly!)<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I really enjoy it when artists take a song, particularly one we all know, and rework it to make it their own.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nosleeprecords.com\/\">No Sleep Records<\/a> released their latest holiday album, <em>No Sleep &#8217;till Christmas 7<\/em>. The final track off the EP, performed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockyvotolato.com\">Rocky Votolato<\/a>, is &#8220;Silent Night,&#8221; and really quite a nice version. 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