{"id":57104,"date":"2024-02-14T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T08:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=57104"},"modified":"2024-02-14T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T08:27:15","slug":"holiday-happy-valentines-day-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-valentines-day-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLIDAY: HAPPY VALENTINE\u2019S DAY 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>HAPPY VALENTINE\u2019S DAY 2024<\/h1>\n<p>This column is either going to be the upper I mean it to be, or perhaps a downer to some lovers out there. (If that&#8217;s the case for you, sorry about that.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57094\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-13-at-6.04.11-PM-e1707848336524.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57094\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57094\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-13-at-6.04.11-PM-e1707848336524-264x300.png\" alt=\"This is an image that defines true love for me!\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-13-at-6.04.11-PM-e1707848336524-264x300.png 264w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-13-at-6.04.11-PM-e1707848336524-902x1024.png 902w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-13-at-6.04.11-PM-e1707848336524.png 1751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is an image that defines true love for me!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I always advise, Valentine&#8217;s\u00a0Day is really nothing special, except to retailers, so please do not feel sad if you don&#8217;t have a love to share it with. It&#8217;s just one day, for goodness sake!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s just about twelve hours because of sleep and getting ready and working, shopping, etc. So that doesn\u2019t leave much time for stressing over it, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I do have to admit that I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like to\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0have a Valentine because I&#8217;ve always had a boyfriend since I was fifteen! (And sometimes two at a time!) But I don&#8217;t remember most of them being very romantic\u00a0dudes, so Valentine&#8217;s Day has never been a big deal to me. I&#8217;ve honestly never felt hurt when my baes have not done enough, or often <em>anything<\/em>, to celebrate it.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. X and I\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>occasionally do something special for the holiday, like see the Disney classic\u00a0<em>Lady and the Tramp<\/em>\u00a0in a theatre, or go out to lunch or dinner or, most happily and appropriately for romance, afternoon tea. But, I promise you, I&#8217;m just as happy to stay home and ignore it all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/331042265_877812070163148_4756213595630427861_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-57091\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/331042265_877812070163148_4756213595630427861_n-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"331042265_877812070163148_4756213595630427861_n\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/331042265_877812070163148_4756213595630427861_n-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/331042265_877812070163148_4756213595630427861_n.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>Actually, we\u00a0<em>are<\/em>\u00a0doing something different today! We&#8217;ll be going to a specialty eye doctor for me! It&#8217;s the only appointment I could get for months, and I will<em>\u00a0love<\/em>\u00a0seeing him finally, so there you have it! Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day to us.<\/p>\n<p>And there is one really good perk of today, for\u00a0<em>everyone<\/em>, which will actually begin\u00a0<em>tomorrow<\/em>. Have you guessed it? It&#8217;s&#8230;all the candy will go on sale, in a big way, now that the holiday is officially over. So that&#8217;s a universal win! Yay!<\/p>\n<p><strong>And now I wish you\u00a0<em>all<\/em>, no matter what your love circumstance is, a very Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day. Enjoy it, (as you should\u00a0<em>every<\/em>\u00a0day,) any way you can. And know that\u00a0<em>I<\/em>\u00a0love you, just for reading this!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY VALENTINE\u2019S DAY 2024 This column is either going to be the upper I mean it to be, or perhaps a downer to some lovers out there. (If that&#8217;s the case for you, sorry about that.) As I always advise, Valentine&#8217;s\u00a0Day is really nothing special, except to retailers, so please do not feel sad if<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-valentines-day-2024\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57111,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104\/revisions\/57111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}