{"id":4370,"date":"2010-02-13T19:25:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2011-02-11T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T15:14:11","slug":"the-third-annual-casa-del-garrett-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-poster-contest%e2%80%a6part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4370","title":{"rendered":"The Third Annual Casa del Garrett Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day Poster Contest\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6(Part 1!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well right off the bat we have four very worthy entries for our contest! \u00a0 These entries would have easily won top honors hadn&#8217;t there been others that completely dashed their hopes of glory and left them mere broken shells of their former selves. \u00a0 But isn&#8217;t that what Valentine&#8217;s Day is all about?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all give these hopeful loosers a friendly pat on the back and a very brief but sincere look of understanding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/vday-2010-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/vday-2010-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/vday-2010-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"623\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/vday-2010-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More hopeful dreams will be dashed on the rocky shore of cold reality tomorrow&#8230;but we&#8217;ll keep them on the hook for a while longer, tossing and turning all night long hoping&#8230;hoping&#8230;knowing how futile their quest ultimately is, yet unable to completely let go of that little sliver of ridiculously wishful thinking. \u00a0 There is simply no other holiday in the calendar that speaks more about the human heart then Valentine&#8217;s Day. \u00a0 Unless it&#8217;s National Cut Off The Gas And Electricity To The Unemployed When The Temperature Is 20 Below Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And then&#8230;the winner gets the Valentine&#8217;s Day heart!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well right off the bat we have four very worthy entries for our contest! \u00a0 These entries would have easily won top honors hadn&#8217;t there been others that completely dashed their hopes of glory and left them mere broken shells of their former selves. \u00a0 But isn&#8217;t that what Valentine&#8217;s Day is all about? Let&#8217;s [&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":[77,126],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-dumpsville-chronicles","tag-valentines-day-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","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=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}