{"id":13395,"date":"2015-02-14T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2015-02-14T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:56:13","slug":"st-valentines-day-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13395","title":{"rendered":"St Valentine&#8217;s Day Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150214004.jpg\" alt=\"St Valentines Day Quiz\" \/><br \/>\n1. What is the date of St Valentine&#8217;s Day?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150214001.jpg\" alt=\"St Valentines Day Quiz\" \/><br \/>\n2. How many millions of pounds are spent on flowers for\u00a0St Valentine&#8217;s Day in the UK each year?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150214005.jpg\" alt=\"St Valentines Day Quiz\" \/><br \/>\n3. Which English Monarch declared St Valentine&#8217;s Day to be a holiday?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150214003.jpg\" alt=\"St Valentines Day Quiz\" \/><br \/>\n4. Which Roman Emporer had the original St Valentine put to death for defying the rule forbidding young soldiers from marrying?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150214002.jpg\" alt=\"St Valentines Day Quiz\" \/><br \/>\n5. What is a Valentine Rant?<\/p>\n<p>(questions 1-4 from &#8220;Perfect Pub Quiz&#8221; by David Pickering.)<\/p>\n<p>Answers &#8230;<br \/>\n1. February 14th<br \/>\n2. \u00a322m<br \/>\n3. King Henry VIII<br \/>\n4. Cladius II<br \/>\n5. Find out this evening at the Royal British Legion but possibly along the lines of <em>&#8220;&#8230; And as for all those stupid \u201cRoses are red, violets are blue\u201d poems\u2026 Violets are purple you idiots!&#8230;.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What is the date of St Valentine&#8217;s Day? 2. How many millions of pounds are spent on flowers for\u00a0St Valentine&#8217;s Day in the UK each year? 3. Which English Monarch declared St Valentine&#8217;s Day to be a holiday? 4. Which Roman Emporer had the original St Valentine put to death for defying the rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}