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<\/p>\nWhoot whoot! Congratulations! We did it. Not only did we meet our fundraising goal this year, but we smashed right through it!<\/p>\n
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All together we raised $1,175 for the Edmonton Food Bank.<\/p>\n
They can turn that into 3,525 meals for people.<\/p>\n
Whoot whoot!<\/p>\n
Thank you so much to everyone who helped to make this possible. Whether that was by donating directly, participating in the blog tour or helping to boost the signal. It all counts and I appreciate every little bit \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
In case you’ve missed them, I’ve gathered together all the stops on the blog tour below.<\/p>\n
Thank you once again.<\/p>\n
Blog Tour Stops:<\/strong><\/p>\n Laura VanArendonk Baugh<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Laura talks about how difficult it is to talk about connections this year, and why that makes it even more important to do it. She\u2019s also giving away a short story as a sort of Giftmas present. I\u2019ve downloaded my copy and look forward to reading it this evening.<\/p>\n JB Riley<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 JB discusses how connections can be good or bad and then shares a story about a family artifact that helped her feel connected to man who died before she was even born.<\/p>\n Stephanie Weippert<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Stephanie\u2019s post is about how connections needn\u2019t be deep or profound in order to matter.<\/p>\n Beth Cato<\/a>\u2018s post about how the pandemic has changed connections for her and her son brought tears to my eyes \u2014 in a good way. You\u2019ll definitely want to give it a read.<\/p>\n Meanwhile,\u00a0Jemima Pett<\/a>\u00a0is matching donations, hosting a giveaway and has a quiz about subway connections on her post.<\/p>\n C.S. MacCath<\/a>\u00a0blogged about her trip to get home after the global pandemic was declared, and about some of the connections she created, maintained or misses now that she\u2019s there.<\/p>\n Lizz Donnelly<\/a>\u00a0discusses how the pandemic has impacted her including a new hobby, and an old one.<\/p>\n Kyla Maki<\/a>\u00a0blogged about a lot of different changes that have taken place this year and how some of them have impacted how we connect. One of my favourite sections was about how it\u2019s changed how we smile.<\/p>\n And\u00a0Stephanie A. Cain<\/a>\u00a0discussed how even the most introverted people need connections with other people and some of the ways beyond social media she\u2019s found to make and maintain them.<\/p>\n Paula Johanson<\/a>\u00a0has a post about the tour on her blog, and\u00a0Alexandra Seidel<\/a>\u00a0has blogged about some of the upsides and downsides to digital connections over physical ones.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whoot whoot! Congratulations! We did it. Not only did we meet our fundraising goal this year, but we smashed right through it! All together we raised $1,175 for the Edmonton Food Bank. They can turn that into 3,525 meals for people. Whoot whoot! Thank you so much to everyone who helped to make this possible. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[25,26],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24","tag-giftmas","tag-giftmas-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Giftmas-Blog-Tour-5-1024x576.png\")
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