{"id":6857,"date":"2013-02-12T20:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2013-02-12T21:10:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T02:10:49","slug":"the-sixth-annual-casa-del-garrett-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-poster-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6857","title":{"rendered":"The Sixth Annual Casa del Garrett Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day Poster Contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of year, when love is in the air. \u00a0 Like that house a couple blocks over that caught fire and was completely gutted, the smell of ashes and the lost memories of a lifetime forever turned to smoke and slowly fading recollections of what was once ours, lingering in the neighborhood for the rest of the summer, and well into winter. \u00a0 Yeah…that.<\/p>\n

This our annual celebration of all those hopeful dreamers who bravely bought with their heart’s desire, a ticket in the Lotto of Love. \u00a0 You have to play to win. \u00a0 And for 175,711,536 to 1 hopeful dreamers, to loose.<\/p>\n

This year’s theme was Famous Love Quotations<\/em>! \u00a0 And we sincerely, are really and truly sorry if we failed to mention this when announcing the start of our contest. \u00a0 And the deadline for entries, which was yesterday. \u00a0 But we are sure we did. \u00a0 You were probably just not paying attention as usual. \u00a0 We have always had communication issues.<\/p>\n

Before we review all those worthy contestants who just didn’t make the cut this year, despite giving it their all, let us pause and remember all the glorious winners of previous years, who are now left stunned and wondering that anyone could have taken their place…<\/p>\n

The winner of our First Annual Contest<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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You will always be remembered as the first one. \u00a0 No one can ever take that away from you. \u00a0 What was your name again?<\/p>\n

Our Second Annual Contest<\/a> winner, who reminded us the most cherished times happen at home…<\/p>\n

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Our Third Annual Contest<\/a> winner examined the evidence and came to a conclusion as to the cause of…love.<\/p>\n

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Our Forth Annual Contest<\/a> Winner reminded us that love makes us stronger inside…<\/p>\n

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Our Fifth Annual Contest Winner…<\/p>\n

Er… \u00a0 Oh…right. \u00a0 Our Fifth Contest was overly affectionate and we had to call it off. \u00a0 It kept calling and texting for months afterward and leaving notes in our mailbox and on our windshield and we finally had to block it on Facebook and get a restraining order. \u00a0 But we will always remember it fondly.<\/p>\n

So tomorrow we begin celebrating this year’s worthy losers. \u00a0 What would Valentine’s Day be without them? \u00a0 For if everyone found their one true love, it would not be such a precious and magical thing would it? \u00a0 When you think about it, all those dashed hopes and dreams after coming oh so close are what make Valentine’s Day so special. \u00a0 Otherwise it would just be another crass commercial holiday exploiting our deepest feelings to get us to buy cheap goods and junk food at ridiculous markups, and kill millions of lovely rose blossoms and other beautiful flowering things as a token of how much we care. \u00a0 And we’ve just had Christmas haven’t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of year, when love is in the air. \u00a0 Like that house a couple blocks over that caught fire and was completely gutted, the smell of ashes and the lost memories of a lifetime forever turned to smoke and slowly fading recollections of what was once ours, lingering in the neighborhood for […]<\/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":[126],"class_list":["post-6857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-valentines-day-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","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=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}