{"id":2307,"date":"2010-12-24T18:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T22:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2010-12-24T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T22:33:20","slug":"a-renegade-christmas-video-worth-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/a-renegade-christmas-video-worth-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Renegade Christmas Video Worth Your Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2308\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"Goss Family Christmas 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/GossFamily-Xmas2010-02-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/GossFamily-Xmas2010-02-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/GossFamily-Xmas2010-02-sm.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Christmas means a lot of different things to different people.<\/p>\n<p>To your child, it might be about Santa Claus and sharing gifts with friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>To your neighbor, it might be about Midnight Mass and worshiping a chosen Messiah.<\/p>\n<p>To you, we hope it&#8217;s about joy, love and exciting expectations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Christmas spirit is YOUR spirit<\/strong>. The laughter and merriment associated with the season come from within you. The Christmas star and bright lights shine from your soul.<\/p>\n<p>So on that note, we &#8212; the Goss family and our team at LWL Worldwide &#8212; wish you an incredibly joyful and Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate you as our customer, subscriber, blog reader, and\/or social media connection who digs what we do &#8212; and <strong>we dig you right back<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>2010 hasn&#8217;t been an easy year for many of us, so we&#8217;d like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making it great in spite of <em>tough conditions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we all know that tough times make us stronger, and deserve our gratitude for the opportunity to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">learn<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">grow<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">develop<\/span>. But sometimes it&#8217;s easy to lose sight of that fact when we&#8217;re in the thick of it &#8212; so we admire you for keeping your skin in the game.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;d like to ask you to join us in making 2011 an even better year, where we can all rise above socio-economic situations if we choose to.<\/p>\n<p>To spread some holiday joy, we&#8217;d like to share a &#8220;new classic&#8221; Christmas song by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.florinstreet.com \" target=\"_blank\">The Florin Street Band<\/a>, led by Leigh Hagerwood, who had a dream to create a heart-warming song that would capture the true spirit of Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>When record companies weren&#8217;t interested, Hagerwood took the renegade approach we like so much and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">made it himself<\/span> (with a little help from his friends).<\/p>\n<p>The video is set in the innocent, traditional Victorian era, and has echoes of Dickens and other classic childhood Christmas memories&#8230; along with a little bit of the <em>Cheers<\/em> theme song (in our humble opinions).<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy watching it with your family or friends, and share this blog post to spread the Christmas cheer even further.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H10f2w7T5CU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H10f2w7T5CU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas means a lot of different things to different people. To your child, it might be about Santa Claus and sharing gifts with friends and family. To your neighbor, it might be about Midnight Mass and worshiping a chosen Messiah. To you, we hope it&#8217;s about joy, love and exciting expectations. 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