{"id":1120,"date":"2011-02-11T13:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benaimfletcher.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2011-02-11T13:49:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:49:56","slug":"vanentines-day-we-dont-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day: We don&#8217;t celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cupcakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1121\" style=\"margin: 1px 5px;\" title=\"cupcakes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cupcakes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cupcakes-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cupcakes.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We\u2019ve been married for 4 months, dated for 3 years and I finally told Steve a few days ago that I don\u2019t care about Valentine\u2019s Day. Like, at all. I never really saw the point of taking a single day out of an entire year to profess your love for someone. Really? What about the other 364 days? What is so special about a single day? Show your loved ones year round bc it just makes sense!<\/p>\n<p>Also, why do women insist upon making their significant others feel like crap if they forget to buy them flowers, candy and jewelry? Another thing I never understood. Early on in our relationship, I did get a big bouquet of pink roses (I\u2019m so not a fan of roses!) and daisies and a really pretty necklace from Steve. And I always make a nice dinner \u2013 not that it necessarily has to be on the actual date. I like to cook. Hell, I might even bake something. I made the above cupcakes a few years ago mostly bc I was on a major cupcake fix and also bc Steve brought home a bag of conversation hearts. =)<\/p>\n<p>A single woman in our office is making a huge deal out of this \u201choliday\u201d by telling all the men that forgetting to buy their wives\/ girlfriends lots of gifts is grounds for a divorce. I just shook my head in disgust.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it\u2019s nice to get the carnations in high school and dole out Scooby Doo valentine\u2019s as a child, but is it really that big of a deal? I, personally, would much rather show my amazing husband how much I love him throughout the entire year.<\/p>\n<p>Steve made a comment the other day (when I informed him I didn\u2019t want anything) about how we\u2019ll be lucky to even see each other on Monday. He works at 9pm and I typically don\u2019t get home until 7-7:30pm. We barely have any time together on the days when I do work.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Are you a hard core Valentine\u2019s Day supporter or is it just another day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been married for 4 months, dated for 3 years and I finally told Steve a few days ago that I don\u2019t care about Valentine\u2019s Day. Like, at all. I never really saw the point of taking a single day out of an entire year to profess your love for someone. Really? What about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}