{"id":736,"date":"2013-02-14T18:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T23:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=736"},"modified":"2013-02-14T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T23:16:58","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-737 aligncenter\" alt=\"vinegarValentine2\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/vinegarValentine2.jpg\" width=\"419\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/vinegarValentine2.jpg 419w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/vinegarValentine2-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/>I&#8217;m sure we can all agree that the only thing more annoying than someone celebrating Valentine&#8217;s Day in a sappy, overly-romantic fashion is someone who gripes and whines about the day being a &#8220;Hallmark Holiday&#8221; created a few years back as a commercial enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>To help shut up both those sorts, some handy links detailing the explosion of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panatibooks.com\/origins\/valentinesday.html\"> pornographic Valentine&#8217;s Day cards that came about with the drop on postal rates in the late nineteenth century<\/a>, and a some delightful images of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/birminghammag.posterous.com\/vinegar-valentines-for-the-one-you-love-to-ha\">vinegar valentines<\/a>&#8220;, also from the Victorian era.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure we can all agree that the only thing more annoying than someone celebrating Valentine&#8217;s Day in a sappy, overly-romantic fashion is someone who gripes and whines about the day being a &#8220;Hallmark Holiday&#8221; created a few years back as a commercial enterprise. To help shut up both those sorts, some handy links detailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}