{"id":5246,"date":"2018-09-20T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2018-09-20T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:22:12","slug":"its-not-valentines-day-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2018\/09\/20\/its-not-valentines-day-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not Valentine\u2019s Day, is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/09\/blog-heart-shaped-outhouse-hole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5232\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/09\/blog-heart-shaped-outhouse-hole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/09\/blog-heart-shaped-outhouse-hole.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/09\/blog-heart-shaped-outhouse-hole-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stepped \u201cout back\u201d after visiting with friends and drinking plenty of tea, only to find that the opening, which used to be a circle, has morphed into a heart, I assume with recent reinforcements to the platform.\u00a0 It sure made me chuckle.\u00a0 To keep the smile on my face, I didn\u2019t look below that cute little heart, you can be sure of that!<\/p>\n<p>FYI, the little teapot holds handwashing water, and the bent up lid is to cover the hole between uses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=5246&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped \u201cout back\u201d after visiting with friends and drinking plenty of tea, only to find that the opening, which used to be a circle, has morphed into a heart, I assume with recent reinforcements to the platform.\u00a0 It sure &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2018\/09\/20\/its-not-valentines-day-is-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s not Valentine\u2019s Day, is it? 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