{"id":36394,"date":"2014-12-04T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=36394"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:14:30","slug":"all-is-calm-all-is-bright-terrific-advent-video-from-the-archdiocese-of-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2014\/12\/all-is-calm-all-is-bright-terrific-advent-video-from-the-archdiocese-of-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"All is calm, all is bright: terrific Advent video from the Archdiocese of Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2014\/12\/500x240-English.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36401\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2014\/12\/500x240-English.png\" alt=\"500x240-English\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2014\/12\/brooklyn-launches-hip-new-ad-campaign-for-christmas\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the Diocese of Brooklyn\u2019s clever promotion for the season <\/a><\/strong>comes another advertising effort, this one from the Archdiocese of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Turn up the volume\u2014so you can turn it down for Advent.<\/p>\n<p>The archdiocese has also launched a website: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.findtheperfectgift.org\/#subscribe\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">FindthePerfectGift.org.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>It has prayer resources, links, a listing of events and suggestions for celebrating the season. There are also tweets and podcasts. It\u2019s an impressive, ambitious undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at their promotional video:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All is Calm. All is Bright. | Find the Perfect Gift\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VtjjYnUzXCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the Diocese of Brooklyn\u2019s clever promotion for the season comes another advertising effort, this one from the Archdiocese of Washington. Turn up the volume\u2014so you can turn it down for Advent. The archdiocese has also launched a website: FindthePerfectGift.org.\u00a0\u00a0It has prayer resources, links, a listing of events and suggestions for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":36401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-36394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-advent"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>All is calm, all is bright: terrific Advent video from the Archdiocese of Washington<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hot on the heels of the Diocese of Brooklyn&#039;s clever promotion for the season comes another advertising effort, this one from the Archdiocese of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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