{"id":1401372,"date":"2026-02-09T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1401372"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:40:10","slug":"valentines-day-cards-from-fictional-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/valentines-day-cards-from-fictional-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day Cards from Fictional Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/feb14literaryvdaycardsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day was easier in elementary school. Everyone got 25 cards no matter what, and you could eat half your weight in Dove chocolates without giving it a second thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays, things aren&#8217;t so cut-and-dry. If you&#8217;re single, you get to watch everyone else receive gifts. If you&#8217;re with someone, you get to stress out about giving them a gift that doesn&#8217;t suck. I can&#8217;t really help you with either of those things, but what I CAN do is this: reassure you that however you&#8217;re doing Valentine&#8217;s Day, at least know you&#8217;re doing it better than the following fictional characters whose idea of romance is dubious at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day was easier in elementary school. Everyone got 25 cards no matter what, and you could eat half your weight in Dove chocolates without giving it a second thought. Nowadays, things aren&#8217;t so cut-and-dry.   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,2335,25017,694,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401372"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442462,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401372\/revisions\/1442462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}