{"id":22181,"date":"2022-12-15T13:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alluringcreations.co.za\/wp\/?p=22181"},"modified":"2025-04-14T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:37:29","slug":"best-thursday-doors-are-the-ones-we-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alluringcreations.co.za\/wp\/best-thursday-doors-are-the-ones-we-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Thursday Doors Are the Ones We Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Best Thursday Doors<\/a> of the year are the ones we opened together here on my blog, a tradition on Thursday Doors weekly<\/a> as hosted by Dan Antion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Looking back at the most loved doors and door stories I posted this year – you can click on an image to open that door and revisit the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"14th<\/a>
A story for a 14th century door at Corvin Castle Transylvania <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Maramures<\/a>
Maramures Gates in Dreamland book Patricia Furstenberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Peles<\/a>
Peles Castle legends and a striking, mysterious locked wrought iron front door for Thursday doors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Sibiu-Evangelical-church-north-portal-stone-mason-Nicolaus-Lapicida\"<\/a>
Under the Sign of the Four Turrets, 100-word Story in Sibiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"doors<\/a>
Opening Doors at Dawn, at the University of Pretoria <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/a>
I stood in front of Merensky Library and I looked up, in awe, because that\u2019s what one should do before entering a place with books\u2026<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"lion
lion head on wooden door University of Pretoria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"photographs<\/a>
a secret door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for your support this passing year. It is for you, my blogger friends and readers, that I write. Wishing you and yours a Blessed Festive Season!
Merry Christmas and a VERY Happy New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday Doors 2023 Badge Contest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday Doors 2023 Badge Contest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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