{"id":25024,"date":"2019-02-14T06:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=25024"},"modified":"2019-11-26T19:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:14:23","slug":"scratching-up-a-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/02\/14\/scratching-up-a-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratching Up a Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" data-attachment-id=\"25025\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/02\/14\/scratching-up-a-valentine\/2-14-2019\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2-14-2019.jpg?fit=640%2C457&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,457\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2-14-2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2-14-2019.jpg?fit=640%2C457&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2-14-2019.jpg?resize=640%2C457&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2-14-2019.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2-14-2019.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My Valentine to Tina this year. Created with a combination of <em>Affinity Photo<\/em> and <em>Affinity Designer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Valentine to Tina this year. Created with a combination of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[3465,3639,390,3664,4223,265],"class_list":["post-25024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drawer-cards","tag-affinity-designer","tag-affinity-photo","tag-cat","tag-drawer-cards","tag-plywood-the-cat","tag-valentine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2-14-2019.jpg?fit=640%2C457&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6vC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21688,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/02\/14\/intercepted-valentine\/","url_meta":{"origin":25024,"position":0},"title":"Intercepted Valentine","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Above is this year's Valentine to the Missus. 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Earlier Tina presented her Valentine to me, and here is my rebuttal.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/card-out-02-14-2024-valentine-pattern.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/card-out-02-14-2024-valentine-pattern.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/card-out-02-14-2024-valentine-pattern.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/card-out-02-14-2024-valentine-pattern.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":22683,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/10\/07\/happy-birthday-tina-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":25024,"position":3},"title":"Happy Birthday, Tina!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time again!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-7-17-HBTG.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-7-17-HBTG.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-7-17-HBTG.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":19745,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/10\/07\/the-prime-of-miss-tina-garceau\/","url_meta":{"origin":25024,"position":4},"title":"The Prime of Miss Tina Garceau","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Prime numbers, that is. 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