{"id":343,"date":"2014-02-14T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T22:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/?p=343"},"modified":"2014-03-03T20:49:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:49:53","slug":"valentines-day-pt-2-solutions-for-sad-singles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/archives\/343","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8211; Solutions for Sad Singles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Renoire-alfred-sisley1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"247\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/archives\/343\/renoire-alfred-sisley-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Renoire-alfred-sisley1.jpg?fit=882%2C1078&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"882,1078\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Renoire-alfred sisley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Renoire-alfred-sisley1.jpg?fit=640%2C783&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-247\" alt=\"Renoire-alfred sisley\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Renoire-alfred-sisley1.jpg?resize=245%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Renoire-alfred-sisley1.jpg?resize=245%2C300&amp;ssl=1 245w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Renoire-alfred-sisley1.jpg?resize=837%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 837w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Renoire-alfred-sisley1.jpg?w=882&amp;ssl=1 882w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Today I felt like this until &#8211;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSCN1242.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"339\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/dscn1242\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSCN1242.jpg?fit=4000%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4000,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX S8100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1392385548&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.13698630136986&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSCN1242\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSCN1242.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-339\" alt=\"DSCN1242\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSCN1242.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSCN1242.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSCN1242.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSCN1242.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSCN1242.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay and I bought each other British chocolate at Tesco after school \ud83d\ude00<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Solution 1: So, if you&#8217;re feeling glum on V-day buy good quality chocolate. Indulge yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Solution 2: Walk the streets, watching adorable (and not so adorable) couples stroll past. Imagine how they first met. Make up their entire life stories. Then go home and write short stories about them.<\/p>\n<p>Solution 3: Pretend it&#8217;s not V-day.<\/p>\n<p>Solution 4: Console yourself with phrases like, &#8220;I&#8217;m in a relationship with this pizza.&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m married to my art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Solution 5: Go to the grocery store and laugh at awkward guys buying flowers and chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Solution 6: Plan ahead. Get a significant other 2 days before V-day, quietly pressure and remind him about it so he&#8217;ll do something nice for you, then promptly dump him on February 15th. (not advised as it can be complicated)<\/p>\n<p>Solution 7: Why is being sad bad? Put your negative emotions to use by writing morbid poetry!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Farewell, farewell, farewell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PS &#8211; Quick tip: Don&#8217;t eat too much chocolate or you&#8217;ll get fat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PPS- This is in no way an official endorsement of <em>Cadbury<\/em> chocolate or <em>Terry&#8217;s Chocolate Orange.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solution 1: So, if you&#8217;re feeling glum on V-day buy good quality chocolate. Indulge yourself. Solution 2: Walk the streets, watching adorable (and not so adorable) couples stroll past. Imagine how they first met. Make up their entire life stories. Then go home and write short stories about them. Solution 3: Pretend it&#8217;s not V-day&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,78,77,79,80,76],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dontusehashtags","tag-78","tag-chocolate","tag-single","tag-solutions","tag-valentines-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WcVY-5x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}