{"id":612,"date":"2008-02-14T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T00:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/valentines-day-history\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T00:09:06","slug":"valentines-day-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/valentines-day-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is today the day of romance or the day of the wallet killer?  This is one of the most common holiday event that people tell me is more like a money grubber of some sort to get you to buy things.  I must admit too, this is one of those holidays that I never really fully understood on how it started as I guess in elementary school they train you to do things like exchange cards with others that day.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks to the Internet that makes researching pretty easy.  I just quickly did a search and found this interesting video that talks about the history of Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day.  The beginning isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly the most romantic thing just to warn you ahead of time.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QWzEL_brPvo&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p>I guess the lesson in the end too is that you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to spend a whack of money to show your love to another.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is today the day of romance or the day of the wallet killer? This is one of the most common holiday event that people tell me is more like a money grubber of some sort to get you to buy things. I must admit too, this is one of those holidays that I never really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,618,619],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-spending-money","tag-valentines-day","tag-valentines-day-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/924991_10264630.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-9S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}