{"id":998,"date":"2011-02-14T19:12:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/be-my-valentine\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:15:52","slug":"be-my-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/be-my-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Be my Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cynic in me would love to hate valentines day, the over commercialised sales pitch for love, but the romantic in me loves to love it, flowers and romance and chocolates and smiles, what’s there not to like…<\/p>\n

…but if all the people in my facebook feed, the strangers on twitter, the friends I’ve seen today in person, or those who I can fully predict are sitting at home bemoaning the significant others in your life expecting something nice on Valentines day. To all of you who have said “I don’t need someone to tell me what day of the year to say I love you” here’s a thought, Maybe if we produced just one romantic gesture unprompted on any one of the remaining 364 days of the year your lovely partners wouldn’t put so much onus on this one day, This one day when it seems most of the nation need reminding it’s ok to do something nice for the one you love!<\/p>\n

It doesn’t have to cost, an unasked for cup of tea in bed, a love letter pinned to the bathroom mirror, a walk in the park on blustery afternoon or having the forethought to cook the dinner for when your other half gets home from what you know is a particularly stressful day.<\/p>\n

Maybe if we all tried to be a, little more romantic throughout the year come February 14th florists and card companies wouldn’t be laughing all the way to the bank!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cynic in me would love to hate valentines day, the over commercialised sales pitch for love, but the romantic in me loves to love it, flowers and romance and chocolates and smiles, what’s there not to like… …but if all the people in my facebook feed, the strangers on twitter, the friends I’ve seen … Continue reading Be my Valentine<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[140,1],"tags":[328,227,327,326,115],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-wbiagw","tag-cynic","tag-love","tag-romance","tag-valentine","tag-valentines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-g6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":511,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/14\/4-fact-about-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":998,"position":0},"title":"#4 Fact about me","date":"February 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I think you can never have too much love and romance, and I probably (definitely) put more onus on it than I should. 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