{"id":120,"date":"2004-02-16T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-02-16T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T16:36:00","slug":"120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint Valentine . . . not a culture hero?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Those fundamentalist Saudis mentioned earlier are not alone in their hatred of hearts, flowers, and by extension, divine Eros. They have company on the Indian subcontinent, where other Muslims and the Hindu Shiv Sena<\/a> party also rage against the evil foreign holiday, or at least they did last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other people who simply felt out of the romantic loop this year can find their consolation and links to Web anti-Valentine sites here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saint Valentine . . . not a culture hero? Those fundamentalist Saudis mentioned earlier are not alone in their hatred of hearts, flowers, and by extension, divine Eros. They have company on the Indian subcontinent, where other Muslims and the Hindu Shiv Sena party also rage against the evil foreign holiday, or at least they […]<\/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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-120","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3832,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3832","url_meta":{"origin":120,"position":0},"title":"The Valentine Code","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"September 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Blogging will be sketchy for the next week, as I am on the road, my destination being first, a small town and an old friend in eastern North Dakota -- and then possibly the Turtle Mountain area of that state.Tonight I fetched up in Valentine, Nebraska (more than halfway there!),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"travel\"","block_context":{"text":"travel","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":119,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=119","url_meta":{"origin":120,"position":2},"title":"Saint Valentine . . .\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 15, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Saint Valentine . . . the pagan? Islamic clerics in Saudi Arabia (our good friends, the Saudis) denounce Valentine's Day as a \"pagan Christian holiday\" and forbid its celebration in the kingdom. Other news reports speak of reprisals against shop owners selling Valentine's Day items. Ah, wonderful, a jihad against\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":614,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=614","url_meta":{"origin":120,"position":3},"title":"That polytheist infidel with the\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"That polytheist infidel with the bow and arrowsEmboldened perhaps by the ongoing cartoon jihad, some radical Muslims are once again going after Valentine's Day cards. The women were from the Kashmiri Islamic group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or Daughters of the Community, Kashmir's only women's separatist group, whose members are also known for\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2756,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2756","url_meta":{"origin":120,"position":4},"title":"Gallimaufry with Forbidden Phrases","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 According to John Rentoul of the British newspaper The Independent, these phrases should be banned due to overuse. He tips his hat to George Orwell, all well and good, but someone in the comments notes that the Irish satirist Brian O'Nolan also eviscerated bureaucratese in his day, which was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"death\"","block_context":{"text":"death","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=death"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1830,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1830","url_meta":{"origin":120,"position":5},"title":"Equinoctal Musings","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the cosmic clock, I must have experienced the fall equinox about the time that I checked into the Trade Winds Motel in Valentine, Nebraska, last Wednesday evening. 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