{"id":5073,"date":"2017-02-08T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:22:57","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/happy-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine\u2019s Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Paige Scofield\r\nNatural Disaster<\/pre>\n<p>Feb. 14th, otherwise known as Valentine\u2019s Day, is a time of chocolates, cards, fancy dinners, broken hearts, love, frilly things, crippling self doubt, romance and candlelight. But people always seem to miss the most important aspect of the 14th, and they have been forgetting it for years. It\u2019s Oregon\u2019s birthday! Our beautiful state turns 158 this year, and I bet it didn\u2019t even cross your mind. Every year I send invitations to everybody. Where were you when it was <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2017\/02\/Oregon-bday-oregonlive.com-edit-color-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5107 alignright\" \/>Oregon\u2019s 150th? Making out and having fun with someone because of some stupid holiday?<\/p>\n<p>Oregon was really hurt, and I was the only one at the party. It got really awkward, because it was a potluck, but all I brought was a 10 pound bag of ice for the drinks that weren\u2019t there. We had to eat ice. There wasn\u2019t even cake. Just ice. I also accidentally bought a block instead of crushed ice, so we literally had to use an ice pick to eat some of the worst ice I\u2019ve ever had. I knew I shouldn\u2019t have skimped and bought the off-brand ice.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, why do you keep taking Oregon for granted? You\u2019ve literally lived together for years. Not to mention, who wouldn\u2019t want to take Oregon out for a birthday\/Valentine\u2019s Day date? Oregon is absolutely stunning, and has a little bit of everything: beaches, deserts, hipsters, mountains, forests, cities and great restaurants. Valentine\u2019s Day was created by candy companies too \u2026 Okay, I can\u2019t do this anymore, I\u2019m honestly just really hurt that nobody asked me out for Valentines Day. I mean I love Oregon\u2019s birthday, but it\u2019s too much state for me to handle and Oregon never calls back. I\u2019m drowning in loneliness, and soon to be discount chocolate. WHY WILL NO ONE LOVE ME?<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Paige Scofield Natural Disaster Feb. 14th, otherwise known as Valentine\u2019s Day, is a time of chocolates, cards, fancy dinners, broken hearts, love, frilly things, crippling self doubt, romance and candlelight. But people always seem to miss the most important aspect of the 14th, and they have been forgetting it for years. It\u2019s Oregon\u2019s birthday! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}