{"id":51,"date":"2008-02-14T17:47:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T21:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2008-02-14T17:50:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T21:50:06","slug":"some-valentines-day-facts-you-didnt-care-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/some-valentines-day-facts-you-didnt-care-to-know","title":{"rendered":"Some Valentine’s Day Facts You Didn’t Care To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"-11 Catholic martyrs named Valentine were recognized by the church until 1969 when the list was trimmed down to two. February 14 honors them both.<\/p>\n

-On February 14, 1779, the natives of Hawaii murdered Captain James Cook the great English explorer and navigator.<\/p>\n

-Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, on Valentine’s Day, 1876.<\/p>\n

-Thursday, February 14, 1929 was the date of the infamous Valentine Day’s Massacre in which 5 members of Bugs Moran’s gang were lined up and shot by Al Capone’s gang.<\/p>\n

-Humorous valentines of the 19th century were called “Vinegar Valentines” or “Penny Dreadfuls”.<\/p>\n

-February 14, 1974, The Captain and Tennille were married. <\/p>\n

Happy Valentine’s Day!<\/strong>
\nHope you get lots of penny dreadfuls this year!<\/p>\n

By the way, the Tennilles<\/a> are still married and live in Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

-11 Catholic martyrs named Valentine were recognized by the church until 1969 when the list was trimmed down to two. February 14 honors them both. -On February 14, 1779, the natives of Hawaii murdered Captain James Cook the great English explorer and navigator. -Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, on Valentine’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}