{"id":82,"date":"2015-02-14T18:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2015-02-14T18:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:14:23","slug":"valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/02\/14\/valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>So did you have a great Valentines?<\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Claire and i celebrated our 2nd Valentines together. We decided not to buy anything for each other this year&#8230;.however<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1300-0.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1300-0.jpg?w=990\" alt=\"(null)\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A picture of love, a collection of selfies and photos that mean a lot to me, which we have taken over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>I also couldn&#8217;t resist getting Claire some more red roses and a small box of chocolates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1301.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1301.jpg?w=990\" alt=\"(null)\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally can you spot the message that was published in The Sun on Saturday 14th February ????<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1304.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1304.jpg?w=990\" alt=\"(null)\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So did you have a great Valentines? Claire and i celebrated our 2nd Valentines together. We decided not to buy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/02\/14\/valentines-day\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,22,21],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-love","tag-valentines","tag-valentines-day","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1300.jpg?fit=1650%2C1650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67hny-1k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":240,"url":"https:\/\/grahampowell.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/oh-wow-were-engaged\/","url_meta":{"origin":82,"position":0},"title":"Oh Wow, we&#8217;re engaged!!!","author":"Graham","date":"August 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"On Friday of last week, I decided I would surprise my Jelly, by proposing to her at work, without her having a clue that it was coming. 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