{"id":1931,"date":"2013-02-13T18:02:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2013-02-13T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T02:02:01","slug":"sealed-with-a-kiss-at-seatasman-sea-02122013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"Sealed With A Kiss – At Sea\/Tasman Sea \u2013 [02\/12\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"valentine\"<\/a>It\u2019s that time of year again\u2026.<\/p>\n

I explained the difficulties with Valentine\u2019s Day and ship-side living last season, so going over it again is probably pointless. Needless to say we\u2019ve had two staff meetings this week, and they\u2019ve both centered on the same bittersweet Hallmark holiday.<\/p>\n

There is simply no getting around the fact that Valentine\u2019s Day is all about couples. You can spin it however you want, you can say it\u2019s about love of all kinds, love of all stripes, but it is, at its core, about couples, and nothing we do will ever change that.<\/p>\n

This year we\u2019re cannibalizing 90+ decks of playing cards so that we can use the heart cards as a means of giving out prizes. A total waste of playing cards honestly as the rest of the deck has to be disposed of (who needs a deck of cards that\u2019s missing an entire suit?!) but one of the only ways we can come up with of giving out the prizes that works without piling the focus onto the \u201cwho has been married the longest\u201d side of things. That said, we do have a couple on board who\u2019s been married 75 years! So they will be getting some kind of honorable mention I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

In the meantime all the quizzes in the library are \u2018sweet\u2019 themed, something I did on purpose as I thought it somewhat appropriate given the holiday. And there are hearts and flowers\u2026everywhere.<\/p>\n

As always, I approach this Valentine \u2019s Day with mixed emotions. The jaded part of me that has been officially single for a very long time has long since convinced herself that this is a piecrust holiday, created by commercialism out of whole cloth and that the only thing good about it is the chocolate sales the day after. My inner feminist stands true in this belief and looks down at the whole thing from her lofty perch with a carefully adopted sneer of disinterest. Then there\u2019s the rest of me\u2026but we won\u2019t go into that \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I had hoped that the inevitable pang of being the wallflower on valentine\u2019s day would be eased by my being able to sing in the afternoon variety show \u2013 as there had been some rumblings in that vien.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s that time of year again\u2026. I explained the difficulties with Valentine\u2019s Day and ship-side living last season, so going over it again is probably pointless. Needless to say we\u2019ve had two staff meetings this week, and they\u2019ve both centered … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,27,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-grand-balls","category-grand-world-voyage-2013","category-theme-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-v9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}