{"id":25767,"date":"2019-02-13T14:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25767"},"modified":"2019-02-13T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:51:15","slug":"valentines-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/valentines-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a Heart on Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/larbore.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia offers Love Potions Walking Tour Feb.16, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the prevalence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/holidays\/valentines-day.html\">red &amp; pink hearts on cards<\/a> and heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, Valentine&#8217;s Day in 2019 looks different than the past, according to a survey released by National Retail Federation (NRF). Ten years ago, more than 60% of adults planned to celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day; today, that&#8217;s dropped to 50%. However, Valentine&#8217;s Day spenders are setting records, averaging $161.96 this year (up 13% from 2018,) with total spending at $20.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Among the reasons cited for NOT celebrating are rejection of commercialism and preference to experiences (shared with friends, loved ones, pets or alone,) that don&#8217;t necessarily rank on spending surveys. Bargain shopping for personal items during Valentine&#8217;s Day sales is also popular, though shoppers say they&#8217;re only saving money on things they need anyway.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest trends in mind, museums, theme parks and zoos offer what non-traditional shoppers want:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Getty museums in Los Angeles &#8212; The Getty Center and Getty Villa &#8212; love can be seen in timeless portraits and sculptures depicting cupid. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/cupid.html\">Cupid and love themes<\/a> are typically found in museums throughout California from San Francisco to San Diego.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/18\">Disneyland<\/a> celebrates Valentine Month through Feb.18 with Minnie&#8217;s Valentine Surprise, a special scavenger hunt experience, and Valentine&#8217;s eats and sweets throughout Disneyland.<\/li>\n<li>Zoos offer special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/zoos\/zoo-valentines-events.html\">Valentine&#8217;s themed dinners and events<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Californians host Cupids Undie Runs to find a cure for Neurofibromatosis.<\/li>\n<li>Heart-centric fundraisers abound at American Heart Association with Ojai&#8217;s Heart &amp; Sole or Heart Walks in Inland Empire, Orange County, San Diego and Sacramento. There&#8217;s nothing more critical to life than having a heart!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia offers Love Potions Walking Tour Feb.16, 2019. Despite the prevalence of red &amp; pink hearts on cards and heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, Valentine&#8217;s Day in 2019 looks different than the past, according to a survey released by National Retail Federation (NRF). Ten years ago, more than 60% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25768,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767\/revisions\/25768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}