{"id":1407062,"date":"2026-02-03T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1407062"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:35:06","slug":"valentines-day-cards-from-classic-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/valentines-day-cards-from-classic-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day Cards from Classic Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/classicauthorsvday2019MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1407060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/classicauthorsvday2019MAIN.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/classicauthorsvday2019MAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day is coming, and not everyone has a Valentine. Some people are single and looking. Others are single and totally fine with it. Still others are fresh off a breakup and posting about it on Facebook, and I&#8217;m looking at <em>you<\/em>, girl I went to high school with whose last name I barely remember but whose very dramatic (and very PUBLIC) week-long breakup (with some guy inexplicably named Tad) I will NEVER forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But anyway! What was I saying? Oh yeah. It&#8217;s almost Valentine&#8217;s Day, and some people don&#8217;t have Valentines. (Especially Tad.) If you, like Tad, do not have a Valentine, then here are some well-meaning but misguided Valentine&#8217;s Day cards from classic authors to help with the crushing loneliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day is coming, and not everyone has a Valentine. Some people are single and looking. Others are single and totally fine with it. Still others are fresh off a breakup and posting about it   <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":1407060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[24436,628,163,25017,141,3849],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407062"}],"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=1407062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446344,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407062\/revisions\/1446344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}