{"id":2681,"date":"2026-02-14T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:23:35","slug":"st-valentines-day-is-celebrated-in-many-parts-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u2019s Day Is Celebrated in Many Parts of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3928\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3928\" class=\"wp-image-3928 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Valentine-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Created by Sandie Obrin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Valentine\u2019s Day is celebrated in many parts of the world<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Three factors may contribute to the creation of Valentine\u2019s Day.\u00a0<\/span>The holiday may have roots in an ancient Roman festival, Lupercalia. One saint named Valentine secretly married couples against a Roman emperor\u2019s wishes. Another saint named Valentine refused to worship Roman gods and was arrested. Children tossed him notes, and thus the idea of exchanging valentines began. Other people believe birds choose their mates on Valentine\u2019s Day. Idea: Instead of buying valentines, children could make cards. They could also learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/modern\/jb_modern_valentin_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day is celebrated in many parts of the world.\u00a0Three factors may contribute to the creation of Valentine\u2019s Day.\u00a0The holiday may have roots in an ancient Roman festival, Lupercalia. One saint named Valentine secretly married couples against a Roman emperor\u2019s wishes. Another saint named Valentine refused to worship Roman gods and was arrested. Children tossed <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2681' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5308,4195,4196,4178],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-february-14","tag-lupercalia","tag-valentine","tag-valentines-day","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29151,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/29151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}