{"id":689,"date":"2014-02-13T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindythomson.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/13\/why-ireland-is-for-lovers"},"modified":"2014-02-13T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:36:00","slug":"why-ireland-is-for-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/why-ireland-is-for-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ireland is for Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

My husband and I spent our honeymoon at Virginia Beach, VA, for the sole reason that it was the shortest drive to the ocean from where we live. Virginia is fond of its motto: Virginia is for Lovers, which is nice when you spend your honeymoon there.<\/p>\n

But I would like to make the argument that Ireland is for lovers, and not just because of its incredible beauty. (Virginia is nice too, but it’s no Ireland!)<\/p>\n

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Ireland is the resting place of the relics of Saint Valentine, a saint martyred for marrying two Christians, as the legend goes. The remains are in Whitefriar Church in Dublin.<\/p>\n

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Dublin is a bustling city and even with a GPS on our phone, my husband and I had a difficult time finding this church. But I shouldn’t blame it totally on the GPS. The outside of the church is rather ordinary and it fooled it as we passed it a couple of times.<\/p>\n

Here is the inside (and by the way, these photos are thanks to Flickr as I did not take any of my own.)<\/p>\n

So, if you didn’t know before, now you do. Ireland truly has reason to be called the place for lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My husband and I spent our honeymoon at Virginia Beach, VA, for the sole reason that it was the shortest drive to the ocean from where we live. Virginia is fond of its motto: Virginia is for Lovers, which is nice when you spend your honeymoon there. But I would like to make the argument…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dublin","category-saint-valentine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}