{"id":6561,"date":"2012-02-07T00:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2019-01-28T16:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T00:56:42","slug":"west-coast-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/west-coast-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6572\" title=\"blog800\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog800.jpg?resize=700%2C683\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog800.jpg?w=700 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog800.jpg?resize=520%2C507 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(high res\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/larger.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">version<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I know that Valentine&#8217;s day is a Hallmark holiday designed to fuel people to spend $$$.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve heard many people argue that your loving appreciation should extend beyond February 14 (I agree with this).<br \/>\nBla bla bla bla at the end of the day, I&#8217;m aware of how naive it may seem for me to be celebrating Valentine&#8217;s day through this comic.<\/p>\n<p>All I have to say for myself is that&#8230;I&#8217;m in love.<br \/>\nDespite the fact that I took the long route home (&#8220;long&#8221; is an understatement&#8230;in 2011 I travelled Peru, Australia, Fiji, Canada, back to Australia, Brunei, Thailand, back to Australia, then several countries around Western Europe),\u00a0I&#8217;ve fallen back in love with my <em>home<\/em>: the misty, grandiose West Coast. Oh yeah, I&#8217;ve also\u00a0managed to fall in love proper (with a person, durr). I guess that&#8217;s something else worth noting&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like ideal timing that Valentine&#8217;s Day is around the bend.<br \/>\nSo here&#8217;s to my swelling heartstrings!<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sidenote:<\/strong><em> this comic was actually inspired by an exercise suggested by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/2-print\/3-mc\/index.html\">Scott McCloud<\/a>. The objective was to depict a theme in 9 panels without dialogue or characters. The theme I chose was &#8220;serenity&#8221; and as it happens, some of my happiest, most &#8216;serene&#8217; memories involve nature and cuddling. Haha! I&#8217;m a sucker, what can I say.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(high res\u00a0version) I know that Valentine&#8217;s day is a Hallmark holiday designed to fuel people to spend $$$. 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Bla bla bla bla at the end of the day, I&#8217;m aware of how naive it may seem for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6588,"comment_status":"closed","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66,64,1948,1950],"tags":[398,422,16,396,400,397,221],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-illustration","category-nature-paintings","category-print","tag-comics","tag-graphic-novel","tag-love","tag-scott-mccloud","tag-serenity","tag-valentines-day","tag-west-coast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/larger.jpg?fit=1000%2C976","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qg3D-1HP","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}