{"id":109,"date":"2007-02-28T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/lupercalia-the-true-origin-of-st-valentines-day\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T12:50:00","slug":"lupercalia-the-true-origin-of-st-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Lupercalia, the True Origin of St. Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meridiangraphics.net\/lupercalia.htm\">Lupercalia, the True Origin of St. Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roman armies took the Lupercalia customs with them as they invaded France and Britain. One of these was a lottery where the names of available maidens were placed in a box and drawn out by the young men. Each man accepted the girl whose name he drew as his love &#8211; for the duration of the festival, or sometimes  longer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lupercalia, the True Origin of St. Valentine&#8217;s Day Roman armies took the Lupercalia customs with them as they invaded France and Britain. One of these was a lottery where the names of available maidens were placed in a box and drawn out by the young men. Each man accepted the girl whose name he drew &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/?p=109\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lupercalia, the True Origin of St. Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8221;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonlordwarlock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}