{"id":354780,"date":"2025-02-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/?p=354780"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:15:48","slug":"pros-and-cons-of-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/2025\/02\/14\/pros-and-cons-of-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pros and Cons of Valentine’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the point of Valentine’s Day? It is a made-up \u201choliday\u201d with no real purpose except to make single people feel even more lonely. There is zero reason that Valentine\u2019s Day should exist. The Romans originally started Valentine\u2019s Day in 49 CE, but it was not a romantic holiday. The purpose of Valentine’s was to celebrate the beginning of spring. However, in the 14th century, Valentine\u2019s Day became a romantic holiday when the Pope established February 14th as St. Valentine’s Day. St. Valentine is the patron saint of lovers, people with epilepsy and beekeepers. The date February 14th was chosen because it was the date that Emperor Claudius II executed two catholic martyrs, so February 14 also honors these proud Catholics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many cons for Valentine\u2019s Day. The first is that single people feel neglected; this means that 45-50% of the American population feels like crap. \u201cI do not like Valentine\u2019s Day because it is annoying seeing happy couples,\u201d said Senior Thomas Costanzo. This is another con to Valentine\u2019s Day; public displays of affection are awkward enough as a bystander, but Valentine\u2019s Day encourages PDA. \u201cIt\u2019s always weird to me when I see two people out in public just going way over the top with the PDA,\u201d said Senior Matthew Hall. Valentine\u2019s Day is a knockoff holiday that 45-50% of Americans do not like because of their singleness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there are pros to Valentine\u2019s; one being that it is a “special” day to be with your significant other. If you are into dressing up, going to a nice dinner, buying gifts and flowers then Valentine\u2019s is the perfect \u201choliday\u201d for you. \u201cI really like Valentine\u2019s Day because my mom always buys me a gift and I get to open it in the morning, it kinda feels like a mini Christmas,\u201d said Senior Thomson Brumfield. However, even for people who are in relationships, only 17% of people say they enjoy Valentine\u2019s Day more than any other day. In my opinion, this is because it is a relatively made-up holiday. 53% of people say that Valentine\u2019s Day is just another day on the calendar. \u201cI am in the 17% that enjoy Valentine\u2019s Day because my grandmother, Mai, always gets me flowers,\u201d said Senior Olivia Diaz. Valentine\u2019s Day is perfect for happy couples that like dressing up, going to dinner and buying gifts, but other than that Valentine\u2019s is just another day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valentine\u2019s Day should be changed into a celebration of friendships instead of relationships, this would allow everyone to celebrate. \u201cI would love a day where I could celebrate my friendships with all my boys,\u201d said freshman Charlie Hall. Valentine\u2019s Day should be changed to platonic day, where friendships are celebrated.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Quinn Culpepper balances the pros and cons of Valentine’s Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the point of Valentine’s Day? It is a made-up \u201choliday\u201d with no real purpose except to make single people feel even more lonely. There is zero reason that Valentine\u2019s Day should exist. The Romans originally started Valentine\u2019s Day in 49 CE, but it was not a romantic holiday.Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":354781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harrison-silver25paceacademy-org","post-354780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valentines-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/files\/2025\/02\/ValentinesprosRGB.jpg?fit=720%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TYqQ-1uig","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354799,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354780\/revisions\/354799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}