{"id":26554,"date":"2020-02-10T06:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26554"},"modified":"2020-02-10T06:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:24:38","slug":"stupid-cupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/stupid-cupid\/","title":{"rendered":"If Cupid is Stupid, Why is Valentine&#8217;s Day So Popular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cupid2.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Statistics show that Californians have a higher than average divorce rate of U.S. states (Nevada&#8217;s divorce rate tops the list,) and Orange County, Calif. is among the highest counties in the U.S., which ranks third globally for divorce. Romantics surround us however, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/holidays\/valentines-gifts-this-year.html\">Valentine&#8217;s gift buying and giving is up this year<\/a> with people giving presents to even their cat, bird or dog!<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Valentine&#8217;s Day, SeeCalifornia.com crew listened to people&#8217;s stories about love, loss and broken hearts.<\/p>\n<p>One gorgeous, blonde Iranian nurse broke out in tears as she pined over a boyfriend 7 years younger. The man broke up with her recently at his mother&#8217;s urging.<\/p>\n<p>An Asian woman shared her fears of living life alone after a failed marriage. No one would be there to help if she fell ill, but mainly she wanted a child and her biological clock was ticking.<\/p>\n<p>Stories about love are timeless. Just visit world-class art museums such as L.A.&#8217;s Getty where you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/in-search-of-love-famous-cupids-in-california-art-collections.html\">see famous cupid themed works<\/a> like Venus Reclining on a Sea Monster with Cupid, by English artist John Deare (1759 &#8211; 1798). This masterpiece involves a tale of a mischievous cupid!<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s Stupid Cupid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/fe14.html\">Valentine&#8217;s Day events<\/a> include &#8220;Mortified,&#8221; an extravaganza where people celebrate and commiserate with stories of past V-Days gone wrong. Head for Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego and Hollywood to get on board.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to love yourself this Valentine&#8217;s Day. Buy yourself a gift you&#8217;d like, celebrate with friends&#8211;and realize that no one is certain if the classic Cupid, depicted as a winged-messenger, was intended as a sarcastic comment on the similarities between warfare and romance. On the other hand, maybe Cupid offers a reminder that love conquers all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics show that Californians have a higher than average divorce rate of U.S. states (Nevada&#8217;s divorce rate tops the list,) and Orange County, Calif. is among the highest counties in the U.S., which ranks third globally for divorce. Romantics surround us however, as Valentine&#8217;s gift buying and giving is up this year with people giving [&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\/26554"}],"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=26554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26555,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26554\/revisions\/26555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}