{"id":1747,"date":"2023-02-13T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2023-02-13T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:46:14","slug":"love-not-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"Love, not War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1753\" src=\"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pexels-pixabay-256678-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Valentine's!\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pexels-pixabay-256678-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pexels-pixabay-256678-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pexels-pixabay-256678-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pexels-pixabay-256678-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This Valentine&#8217;s Day, make love not war<\/p>\n<p>Who was Saint Valentine? Stories vary but according to one account he was a third century Roman priest. Rome at this time was ruled by the bloodthirsty Emperor Claudius II. Single men were thought to make better soldiers &amp; only they were subject to the draft. Worrying that men would marry to avoid military service Claudius outlawed marriage. Valentine disobeyed the law &amp; performed marriages in secret. Not only did he unite lovers but he provided war resisters with an alternative to the draft. Valentine was eventually executed for his act of defiance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Valentine&#8217;s Day, make love not war Who was Saint Valentine? Stories vary but according to one account he was a third century Roman priest. Rome at this time was ruled by the bloodthirsty Emperor Claudius II. Single men were thought to make better soldiers &amp; only they were subject to the draft. Worrying that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promote-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}