[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":108},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fblog\u002Fvalentines-rant":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":96,"date":97,"description":12,"draft":98,"excerpt":99,"extension":100,"image":101,"meta":102,"navigation":103,"path":104,"popular":98,"seo":105,"stem":106,"__hash__":107},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fvalentines-rant.md","A Valentine's Rant",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":92},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,22,25,28,34,37,40,43,46,52,57,60,63,66,69,72,75,78,81,84,89],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Happy Valentine’s Day.",[10,14,15],{},"That’s how you write it. The apostrophe is strictly in that position and the word day is quite crucial. I however believe that love covers a multitude of sin and bad grammar may be excused on this day. From my skimming through the socials, I believe the patron saint of love must be proud of his legacy.",[10,17,18],{},"The origin of the day and the Saint himself is shrouded by uncertainty and mystery to the extent that though St. Valentine’s name remains in the list of officially recognized saints, he was removed from the General Roman calendar and his liturgical veneration stopped due to lack of reliable information about him.",[10,20,21],{},"Legend has it that Valentine was a Roman priest who secretly performed marriages for young lovers against the law. While he got away with doing this for young Christians, he was imprisoned for conducting marriages for soldiers so as to spare the husbands from war. He was jailed in the home of a noble where he is said to have healed his daughter and converted the entire house to Christianity. On the eve of his execution by beheading, the good man was given a chance to write his final words. Out of all the people he could have addressed, he wrote to his jailer’s daughter, the girl he had healed and perhaps loved, signing it off as…’Your Valentine’.",[10,23,24],{},"The mystery around the Saint is in line with the theme of the day itself. LOVE.",[10,26,27],{},"Let’s take a deep dive and attempt to make sense of this greatest commandment. Who doesn’t love a good love story? Let’s begin with your most popular (and wildly dysfunctional) love stories.",[10,29,30],{},[31,32,33],"strong",{},"Romeo and Juliet",[10,35,36],{},"This is a juvenile story of hasty marriage followed by a series of deaths. Tragic I know! I’m also struggling to see the greatest love here.",[10,38,39],{},"It’s 1303, in Verona Italy. Romeo, a young man aged 16 falls deeply in love with Juliet who is due to marry the County Paris at a ripe age of 13. Juliet, her nurse and the girlies arrange for a secret marriage the following day. Romeo however kills Juliet’s cousin in a fight and is banished making it impossible to go through with the plan.",[10,41,42],{},"Juliet comes up with a stupid plot to fake her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo in good time and when it finally does, he believes Juliet to be truly dead.",[10,44,45],{},"Disconsolate, Romeo goes to her tomb where he finds the County Paris in mourning. He kills the Paris in a sword fight and himself by taking poison right by her tomb. Juliet our sleeping beauty then wakes up only to find Romeo’s corpse. She kisses his poisoned lips in a bid to follow him to death and when she does not die from this, she buries his dagger in her chest.",[10,47,48],{},[49,50,51],"em",{},"‘For never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo’",[10,53,54],{},[31,55,56],{},"Bonnie and Clyde",[10,58,59],{},"This is the story of a glamourized criminal couple who were responsible for bank robberies, murders and kidnappings between 1932 and 1934. Their dedication to each other through their criminal escapades is the reason they were surprisingly idolized as one of the most iconic couples of the 20 th Century.",[10,61,62],{},"Bonnie had dropped out of school and married her high school classmate, Roy Thornton, 6 days before her 16 th birthday. The marriage later on disintegrated and her husband imprisoned for robbery in 1929.",[10,64,65],{},"Bonnie met Clyde in January of 1930 at a mutual friend’s and soon after the duo was inseparable to the day of their death in the foreseeable near future. Not to the law however, as two months later, Clyde was arrested and convicted of auto theft. Bonnie helped him escape from prison although he was shortly recaptured. Clyde was released from prison in 1932 and the couple led the brief rest of their lives on the run. The notorious outlaws were shot to death on 23rd May,1934 inside their car in an ambush after spectacular manhunt. The elusive couple met their gruesome fate in a torrent of at least 150 bullets to ensure they did not escape as was their prowess.",[10,67,68],{},"It might interest you to know that by the time of their death, both Bonnie and Clyde used to limp for different reasons. Clyde had occasioned the limping himself as he had chopped of two of his toes while in prison (with an axe) to avoid hard labour and with the hopes of being transferred to a less harsh facility. The hard labour did stop six days after the big chop but due to unrelated causes. His mother had appealed and Clyde was a freed less than a week after the axe job.",[10,70,71],{},"As for Bonnie, she was involved in a car accident in 1933 and had battery acid pour all over her right leg that ate away the bone in some area. You already know your boy Clyde was on the wheel. The couple had a two year crime spree and at the time of death, Bonnie had still never divorced Roy and was wearing his ring on the very day of her demise. The baddie even had a thigh tattoo with two interconnected hearts labeled ‘Bonnie’ and ‘Roy’.",[10,73,74],{},"So much for love. Huh?",[10,76,77],{},"I shall not delve to fairytale stories of princes who claim to love you but cannot tell how you look with your make up off when morning comes. In fact, the story I would reasonate with in this year of our Lord 2023, is that of beauty and the Beast. Having a free castle to live in with free food, no rent to pay, a beautiful garden of roses outside and a library does not sound like a sour deal at all. In fact, sign me up for it immediately. I can handle a couple of talking furniture. Whether Belle actually suffered from Stockholm syndrome is a story I shall leave to your wise interpretation. As far as I’m concerned, she seemed to have maintained her independence given the constant disagreements with her hideous host.",[10,79,80],{},"Is there a lesson in here? No. It’s a rant guys. That’s it.",[10,82,83],{},"I wish Juliet had better communication though, they probably would have lived happily ever after. I also wish that Cinderella showed up for the ball even without the fairy godmother’s help just to see how that story would go. But as is, none of it makes sense and that’s love for you.",[10,85,86],{},[49,87,88],{},"Love doesn’t always make sense. To the person in it or the people around them. The falling can be an emotional, chaotic whirlwind. The landing jarring and eye opening. But if two people are really in love, there’s nothing in this world that can overcome it. Even if they can’t be together, the love doesn’t cease. ~ Jean Haus",[10,90,91],{},"Apparently.",{"title":93,"searchDepth":94,"depth":94,"links":95},"",2,[],"Lifestyle","2023-02-15",false,null,"md","\u002Fimg\u002Flove.webp",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fvalentines-rant",{"title":5,"description":12},"blog\u002Fvalentines-rant","xoO3UFBSNIDKvlq_IIIiImjIil1CNgPnP1gznBdPAeE",1790669030716]