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February 14 is the Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 We all know what Valentine’s Day means to the couples.\u00a0 We all criticize the over commercialization of Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 I guess not many people car about the origin of Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 The are quite a few versions, here is the version I like most.\u00a0 Valentine’s Day is named after St. Valentine, who is a Catholic priest in ancient Rome.\u00a0 In his day, Rome is on war and the emperor draft young men into the army and send them to battle field far away.\u00a0 The emperor forbid marriage so that he can draft more single men to be soldiers.\u00a0 St. Valentine break the emperor’s order and secretly perform wedding for the young couples.\u00a0 He is arrested and killed by the emperor, and he became the saint of lovers. \u00a0\u00a0 So, Valentine’s Day should be really be St. Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 It is not merely about boyfriend\/girlfriend but about marriage.\u00a0 Only those couples who are intend to get marry should celebrate this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 14 is the Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 We all know what Valentine’s Day means to the couples.\u00a0 We all criticize the over commercialization of Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 I guess not many people car about the origin of Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 The are quite a few versions, here is the version I like most.\u00a0 Valentine’s Day is named after … Continue reading Happy (St.) Valentine’s Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"lc_iscn_info":[],"_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":[132],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_scribble","tag-valentine"],"yoast_head":"\nHappy (St.) Valentine's Day - 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