{"id":29540,"date":"2014-02-08T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=29540"},"modified":"2014-02-10T08:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T13:32:43","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-valentine-difficult-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-valentine-difficult-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why was the first Valentine difficult to deliver?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Diamond<\/a>You might think you went through a lot elbowing fellow shoppers for the last box of chocolates and finagling a cozy table for two by the window, but sending the first known written Valentine had some challenges of its own. Charles, Duke of Orleans sent his wife a sweet two line poem calling her his \u201cvery gentle Valentine\u201d while being held in the Tower of London. Taken as a prisoner of war after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, he stayed there for twenty-four years, writing a multitude of poems during his captivity. We doubt the Tower of London offered express shipping, so Cupid definitely had his work cut out for him.<\/p>\n

Diamond Arrow Necklace by Cindy and Avril Joffe, $175<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might think you went through a lot elbowing fellow shoppers for the last box of chocolates and finagling a cozy table for two by the window, but sending the first known written Valentine had some challenges of its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":29999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}