{"id":1850,"date":"2006-02-14T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1850.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T20:04:47","slug":"valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2006\/02\/14\/valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re lucky enough to get a Valentine&#8217;s card today, well, good.  Somebody loves you.  Remember that.<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t, then one of the hearts in this picture is especially for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/98392455\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/27\/98392455_3a83eb5102.jpg\" width=\"439\" height=\"500\" alt=\"paperheart\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, 16th February:<\/strong> A number of people have asked me how I did this, whether it&#8217;s wicker, how long it took me to make, etc.  Let me explain.  I was trimming pages of a few books with my Christmas bookbinding present, the beautiful vertical plough that Martin got me.  The bin was full of little strips of paper in cream and white.  So I curled a few of them into a half-heart shape and photographed the result, then cut the picture, mirrored the appropriate bit, and pasted.  The intricacy of the final result astonishes even me, and I did it.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to rob you of some of the magic, dear readers, but I can&#8217;t let you think I did something I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re lucky enough to get a Valentine&#8217;s card today, well, good. Somebody loves you. Remember that. If you aren&#8217;t, then one of the hearts in this picture is especially for you. Update, 16th February: A number of people have asked me how I did this, whether it&#8217;s wicker, how long it took me to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2006\/02\/14\/valentines-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[1613,1696,1654,1621],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-bookbinding-tag","tag-hearts","tag-macro","tag-significant-dates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}