{"id":473,"date":"2008-02-14T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/02\/happy-obligatory-romance-day.html"},"modified":"2008-02-14T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T08:47:00","slug":"happy-obligatory-romance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/02\/happy-obligatory-romance-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Obligatory Romance Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago<\/span> I shared about how I don’t necessarily heart Valentine’s Day<\/a>, which — if you keep up with these things — is today. The article I mentioned working on back then has now been published at TrueU.org<\/a>, so if you want to know even more about my dislike for the fake holiday (plus some timely thoughts on how to be romantic), feel free to click over there.<\/p>\n

I’m especially pleased with the title: Romance on Valentine’s Day Is Lame<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago I shared about how I don’t necessarily heart Valentine’s Day, which — if you keep up with these things — is today. The article I mentioned working on back then has now been published at TrueU.org, so if you want to know even more about my dislike for the fake holiday (plus…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shameless-self-promotion","category-writing"],"yoast_head":"\nHappy Obligatory Romance Day! - O Me of Little Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/02\/happy-obligatory-romance-day.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Obligatory Romance Day! - O Me of Little Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three weeks ago I shared about how I don’t necessarily heart Valentine’s Day, which — if you keep up with these things — is today. 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