{"id":5095,"date":"2014-02-14T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/14\/valentines-day-2014-2\/"},"modified":"2014-02-14T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:24:46","slug":"valentines-day-2014-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/14\/valentines-day-2014-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/valanim.gif' alt='valanim.gif' class='right' \/>Long celebrated as a religious feast, St. Valentines Day has become the second most popular day of the year to exchange greeting cards, Christmas being the most popular. Eighty-five percent of Valentines Greeting cards are purchased by women.<\/p>\n<p>From <strong>WikiPedia<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valentine%27s_day\">St. Valentine&#8217;s Day <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/stval.jpg' alt='stval.jpg' class=\"right\" \/>St. Valentine&#8217;s Day falls on February 14, and is the traditional day on which lovers in certain cultures let each other know about their love, commonly by sending Valentine&#8217;s cards, which are often anonymous. The history of Valentine&#8217;s day can be traced back to a Catholic Church feast day, in honor of Saint Valentine. The day&#8217;s associations with romantic love arrived after the High Middle Ages, during which the concept of romantic love was formulated.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And finally, for those disappointed in love or who lack faith, or just single, there is this <strong>SAD <\/strong>alternative: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Singles_Awareness_Day\">Single Awareness Day (SAD)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long celebrated as a religious feast, St. Valentines Day has become the second most popular day of the year to exchange greeting cards, Christmas being the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}