{"id":6585,"date":"2022-02-11T13:50:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2022-02-11T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:50:34","slug":"feeling-in-between-this-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6585","title":{"rendered":"Feeling In-Between This Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Marisa Seager<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most people are pretty quick to say whether or not they are in favor of Valentine\u2019s Day, but most of the time this really just depends on whether or not they are in a relationship. For me, my relationship status doesn\u2019t dictate my stance, but I do feel sort of in-between.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are the pros and cons that I\u2019ve come up with for this upcoming day of love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not that you should need any type of excuse to show your love for your significant other, this can be a fun time to do it. This could also be a day for self-love if you want!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heart shaped and pink everyday items EVERYWHERE! Don\u2019t even get me started on the kinds of things you can find at the Bullseye\u2019s Playground section at Target.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opportunity to have a \u201cGalentine\u2019s Day\u201d with some of your friends.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most importantly, the big sale the day after on candies and all kinds of goodies. This is one of my favorite parts of any holiday or season change.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The feeling of being lonely if you don\u2019t have a valentine. There\u2019s also the possibility that you do have one, but you just can\u2019t spend this day with them.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love being commercialized everywhere you look.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That one song, yeah that one song. You know what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sugar crash for those of you who will be indulging in sweets.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See what I mean? Regardless of whether you\u2019re in a relationship or not, there are definitely the good and bad parts to Valentine\u2019s Day<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Marisa Seager Most people are pretty quick to say whether or not they are in favor of Valentine\u2019s Day, but most of the time this really just depends on whether or not they are in a relationship. For me, my relationship status doesn\u2019t dictate my stance, but I do feel sort of in-between.\u00a0 Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Feeling-In-Between-This-Valentines-Day-STOCK-PHOTO.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}