{"id":234,"date":"2008-02-17T19:03:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T01:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/?p=234"},"modified":"2008-02-17T20:51:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T02:51:38","slug":"valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/living-with-a-boy\/valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2222\/2273119956_b71321073b.jpg?v=1203296248\" alt=\"\" width=200 \/><br \/>\nThis past Thursday was Valentine&#8217;s day as most of you are aware.  I have never particularly loved Valentine&#8217;s day, it&#8217;s too commercial now days. I don&#8217;t want someone (AKA the hubs) to feel pressure to get a gift, b\/c then it&#8217;s just given with a &#8220;have to do&#8221; attitude.  I also don&#8217;t think we need one day out of the year to celebrate your love for your significant other, that should be happening all year round.  I would prefer to be surprised with flowers or a nice dinner at a small hole in the wall restaurant on a day that&#8217;s not valentine&#8217;s day&#8211;just a regular day.  We were talking the other day at dinner about this and decided that we are starting a new tradition&#8230;we&#8217;ll we&#8217;re actually stealing this from someone else (<a href=\"http:\/\/rmfo-blogs.com\/brandi\/2008\/02\/14\/i-think-that-possibly-maybe-im-falling-for-you\/\">Brandi&#8217;s blog<\/a>). So what we&#8217;re going to do from now on is just go eat somewhere, or at home&#8230;nothing fancy smancy and then go to Target.  We will have $20 to spend on the other person in 20 minutes.  You never know what you&#8217;ll end up with at Target&#8230;.it could be 20 bags of skittles or 2 T-shirts or socks&#8230;who knows, that&#8217;s what makes it fun&#8230;.and it&#8217;s Target so who wouldn&#8217;t like it. The pressure is just narrowed down to 20 minutes instead of like 2 weeks of thinking of what to do and what to get them blah blah blah.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong I do love flowers and receiving flowers is awesome&#8230;.but I can get those any day of the year \ud83d\ude09 hint hint!!<br \/>\nAll in all, this valentine&#8217;s day was great&#8211;we went to eat some dinner and then came home and spent the evening with each other &#8211; and that&#8217;s all that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Thursday was Valentine&#8217;s day as most of you are aware. I have never particularly loved Valentine&#8217;s day, it&#8217;s too commercial now days. I don&#8217;t want someone (AKA the hubs) to feel pressure to get a gift, b\/c then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/living-with-a-boy\/valentines-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-living-with-a-boy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17Mch-3M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}