{"id":556,"date":"2011-02-14T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2011-02-14T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T15:00:54","slug":"556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/556\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Someone Say Romantic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-558\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/2011\/02\/14\/556\/_1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-558\" title=\"_1\" src=\"https:\/\/tristancrane.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh Valentine&#8217;s day. What a strange holiday. I approve of what it symbolizes, but dislike the commercialization and pressure on certain members of a couple to ante up some kind of gesture representing their devotion.<\/p>\n<p>It can be hard to be single, and happily so, in a world which emphasizes partnering up. As grateful as I am for my current relationship, I would never trade away the independence and self knowledge I gained from years of being on my own.<\/p>\n<p>My partner and I don&#8217;t celebrate Valentine&#8217;s day, so these are absolutely not in any way Valentine&#8217;s day flowers. I just happened to walk past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairiecollective.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prairie Collective<\/a> on Divisadaro street and noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/studiochoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Choo<\/a> had put out a fresh batch of little bouquets. In my opinion, there&#8217;s never just one day to buy someone flowers &#8211; and don&#8217;t forget to get yourself something romantic once in a while.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-557\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/2011\/02\/14\/556\/attachment\/3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-557\" title=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/tristancrane.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-559\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/2011\/02\/14\/556\/attachment\/2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-559\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/tristancrane.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Valentine&#8217;s day. What a strange holiday. I approve of what it symbolizes, but dislike the commercialization and pressure on certain members of a couple to ante up some kind of gesture representing their devotion. It can be hard to be single, and happily so, in a world which emphasizes partnering up. As grateful as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/556\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Did Someone Say Romantic?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,213,214,206,215,10,216,217],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blossoms","tag-floral","tag-florist","tag-flowers","tag-romance","tag-san-francisco","tag-studio-choo","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}