{"id":2544,"date":"2009-02-14T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/02\/14\/happy-valentines-day\/"},"modified":"2009-02-14T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T17:19:43","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/02\/14\/happy-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0602\/valanim.gif\" class=\"right\" \/>The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend on average twice as much money as women.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine&#8217;s Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;m sending you all this pretty red electronic rose! Special greetings to our men and women in the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wedwose.jpg' alt='A Red Rose' class='centered' \/><\/p>\n<div align='center' style='font-weight: bold; color: red; font-size: 3.0em;'>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}