{"id":10552,"date":"2014-02-14T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2014-02-13T20:16:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T01:16:02","slug":"valentines-day-is-bad-for-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/valentines-day-is-bad-for-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u2019s Day Is Bad For The Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021414_0113_ValentinesD1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes. We&#8217;re single.<\/p>\n<p>No. We&#8217;re not bitter about it.<\/p>\n<p>Irrespective of whether you believe us or not Jeffrey Ball writes that Valentine&#8217;s Day is bad for the environment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After Christmas, Valentine&#8217;s Day is the biggest card-selling holiday.<\/li>\n<li>According to one study each card produces 600 times as much carbon dioxide as the simple act of sending an e-Valentine&#8217;s Day card.<\/li>\n<li>This includes the cost of making the card, putting it in an envelope, and transporting it to its destination.<\/li>\n<li>Various companies sell environmentally friendly cards but more often than not they don&#8217;t fully take into account the carbon footprint of the card.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/116595\/valentines-day-environmental-travesty\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/116595\/valentines-day-environmental-travesty\">New Republic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. We&#8217;re single. No. We&#8217;re not bitter about it. Irrespective of whether you believe us or not Jeffrey Ball writes that Valentine&#8217;s Day is bad for the environment: After Christmas, Valentine&#8217;s Day is the biggest card-selling holiday. According to one study each card produces 600 times as much carbon dioxide as the simple act of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021414_0113_ValentinesD1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10556,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions\/10556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}