{"id":12771,"date":"2019-02-14T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12771"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:53:49","slug":"blogathon-14-19-vd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12771","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 14\/19: VD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s that tine of the year when a young man&#8217;s thoughts turn to fancy and a young woman&#8217;s thoughts turn to a million things because that&#8217;s the way their brain processes information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is, of course, VD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day. Or, as I&#8217;m sure we used to call it, Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About a hundred years ago, at school, we used to have an inter-class Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day postal service &#8211; so that you (or someone) could anonymously post a Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day card to the object(s) of your (or their) desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I can remember getting about three cards, over the course of my time at that school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s always the possibility my memory has failed and the actual number of cards is lower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that tine of the year when a young man&#8217;s thoughts turn to fancy and a young woman&#8217;s thoughts turn to a million things because<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}