{"id":14191,"date":"2026-02-14T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:00:36","slug":"no-valentines-day-poster-contest-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14191","title":{"rendered":"No Valentine&#8217;s Day Poster Contest This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve over all that. Or just getting old. Whatever. This is not a day to be spoiling other people&#8217;s joy. Instead I&#8217;m going to try and cultivate some of my own. Or at any rate, at least some peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14192\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/valentinedayflowerstome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/valentinedayflowerstome.jpg 700w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/valentinedayflowerstome-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alas, the nice local upscale restaurant I would have treated myself to today, La Cuchara, has been closed for over a month now due to a fire in one of its kitchen vents. I&#8217;m really hoping they come back. It was expensive but worth every penny.<\/p>\n<p>Probably do Wicked Sister&#8217;s. I love their crab cake dinner, and some of their house cocktails are pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve over all that. Or just getting old. Whatever. This is not a day to be spoiling other people&#8217;s joy. Instead I&#8217;m going to try and cultivate some of my own. Or at any rate, at least some peace of mind. Alas, the nice local upscale restaurant I would have treated myself to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[157,317],"class_list":["post-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-old-man-chronicles","tag-the-single-gay-guy-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14195,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}