{"id":407,"date":"2026-02-14T10:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:25:20","slug":"first-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/14\/first-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"First Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>First Valentine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roses are individual manifestations of a type,<br>and, like violets, are a not yet conventional<br>expression of a future traditional sentiment,<br>as am I. What I&#8217;m trying not to say is, I don&#8217;t<br>not. That is, if you, oh my emotional regulator\u2014<br>to be which, the cosmos with you long labored.<br>It&#8217;s work you will some eon work out, but in<br>this instant&#8217;s eternity, you beholding I flare,<br>I frost, I gloom, glare, gloss my doom, repeal<br>myself and all creation not created you. (To be<br>repeated as oft-<br>en as roses wilt or violets bloom.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em><em>Basil Cartryte<\/em><em><br><\/em><em>2026-02-14<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roses are individual manifestations of a type\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10,59,58],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-valentine","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}