{"id":1584,"date":"2018-02-14T06:07:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T11:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2018-02-14T06:07:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T11:07:32","slug":"february-14-ash-wednesday-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"February 14 \u2013 Ash Wednesday &#038; Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"February 14 \u2013 Ash Wednesday &#038; Valentine\u2019s Day\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1584\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/021418_1107_February14A1.png\" alt=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/021418_1107_February14A2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">The last time these two observances fell on the same day was in 1956.  It seems to me like they are opposites.  Valentine&#8217;s being a day focused on love and giving those you love special gifts, versus Ash Wednesday which is a day of penitence being reminded of the condition of human sin.  How we focus on both observances in the same day will be a challenge.  I wish everyone trying to balance them success in their effort.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The last time these two observances fell on the same day was in 1956. It seems to me like they are opposites. Valentine&#8217;s being a day focused on love and giving those you love special gifts, versus Ash Wednesday which is a day of penitence being reminded of the condition of human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February 14 \u2013 Ash Wednesday &#038; Valentine\u2019s Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}