{"id":21208,"date":"2016-02-15T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21208"},"modified":"2016-02-15T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T06:18:19","slug":"valentines-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/valentines-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentines Treats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t usually do much for Valentines Day as it&#8217;s all a bit of a money-grabbing exercise really. This year, just for a change, I decided to be a little more romantic than usual and so stopped off in the shops on my way home from my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/llwyngwril-to-talybont-coast-path-run\/\">Coast Path Run<\/a> on Saturday morning and went the whole hog. 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