{"id":635,"date":"2008-02-14T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohwalker.wordpress.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2008-02-14T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T00:00:08","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2008\/02\/happy-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#039;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>NEWSLETTER UPDATE<\/h3>\n<p>Just an FYI, due to computer issues, I lost the list of my newsletter subscribers.\u00a0 If you were on it and would like to continue to receive it, please send me another email&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 shilohnews@insightbb.com<\/p>\n<h4>And onto today&#8217;s post&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p>I like Valentine&#8217;s Day.  Granted, I&#8217;ve been with my husband since the summer I<a href=\"http:\/\/shilohwalker.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/lips.jpg\" title=\"lips.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shilohwalker.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/lips.thumbnail.jpg?w=1170\" alt=\"lips.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> turned 15, more than half my life now and haven&#8217;t really spent too many Valentine Days alone, so I realize I&#8217;m prejudiced.  I&#8217;m also extremely materialistic and do so love getting pressies.  *G*  Hey, I&#8217;m honest, I admit my weaknesses, that&#8217;s gotta count for something, right?So what&#8217;s your Valentine&#8217;s Day going to be&#8230;you flying solo?  With the DH or SO or going out with a bunch of friends?<\/p>\n<p>A contest of sorts&#8230;one will have two winners&#8230;I want to know the <i>best<\/i> and the <i>worst<\/i> Valentine&#8217;s Day story you have.  Make me sniffle and get all misty eyed with your sweetest story, and then make me grit my teeth over something a boyfriend\/spouse\/ whatever did on Valentine&#8217;s Day, or one you spent by yourself, or whatever made it a bad one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll draw two winners, one from the sniffle-happy-sigh posts and one from oh-man-you-poor-thing\/oh-man-you-gotta-be-kidding me posts.  You can try to do one for each, but in this instance, make sure you post the good and the bad separately, to make it easier for me to pick out the winners.  FYI, you can enter both&#8230; but you can&#8217;t win both.<\/p>\n<p>Prizes TBA when I draw the winners!<i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWSLETTER UPDATE Just an FYI, due to computer issues, I lost the list of my newsletter subscribers.\u00a0 If you were on it and would like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2008\/02\/happy-valentines-day\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Valentine&#039;s Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10161045129738658_54762468447":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","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,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[542,11,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-contests-winners","category-romance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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