{"id":3593,"date":"2011-02-11T22:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:22","slug":"valentine-blog-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/valentine-blog-hop","title":{"rendered":"Valentine Blog&nbsp;Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wel\u00adcome to my website!\u00c2&nbsp;I\u2019m Alan\u00adna Coca, and I&nbsp;write con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary romances, and I\u2019ve dab\u00adbled in\u00c2&nbsp;his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal west\u00adern romance.\u00c2&nbsp; Feel free to click over to my Books page, because one win\u00adner will receive their choice of my back\u00adlist! If you\u2019re just hap\u00adpen\u00ading along this post, click <a href=\"http:\/\/justromance.me\/bloghop\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"caps\">HERE<\/span><\/a> to see all of the blog posts in the JustRomance.Me Valen\u00adtine\u2019s Blog&nbsp;Hop.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3594\" style=\"width: 492px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3594 \" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Rose.jpg\" alt width=\"492\" height=\"615\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 2011 Michael Clothier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/p><blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u201cCut!\u201d The direc\u00adtor stormed onto stage, wav\u00ading his bot\u00adtled water around in frus\u00adtra\u00adtion, the con\u00adden\u00adsa\u00adtion hit\u00adting every\u00adone watching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Juan had been kneel\u00ading on the hard\u00adwood stage for about an hour, and his kneecaps were throb\u00adbing. Car\u00adlie\u2019s sigh was not only audi\u00adble, but her slump\u00ading shoul\u00adders clear\u00adly showed her frustration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u201cJuan, you\u2019re sup\u00adposed to be propos\u00ading, not chew\u00ading glass. What\u2019s with the pinched up&nbsp;face?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Juan fell back on his butt, and let the rose roll out of his hand. \u201cIt\u2019s called pain, Frank. I&nbsp;can\u2019t kneel on this stage for hours on end with\u00adout feel\u00ading a&nbsp;lit\u00adtle bit of&nbsp;pain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Frank snort\u00aded. \u201cLove hurts. Now we\u2019re gonna can this scene before lunch if it kills me\u2013\u201d He took a&nbsp;long drink of water, prob\u00ada\u00adbly to replen\u00adish the mois\u00adture he was sweat\u00ading out. \u201c\u2013or you. Get it right so you and your knees can stop bitch\u00ading. Now places everyone!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Juan ground his molars togeth\u00ader. He rolled back onto his knees, and picked up the fake rose. The obnox\u00adious bell rang, along with Frank\u2019s bel\u00adlow for qui\u00adet on the set. Juan looked up at Car\u00adlie, hop\u00ading his con\u00adtrite face con\u00adveyed his apology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> She smiled, a&nbsp;sweet under\u00adstand\u00ading grin, and leaned down to whis\u00adper in his ear. \u201cGet it right this time, and I\u2019ll show you the silky red ted\u00addy I&nbsp;bought for our date on Valen\u00adtine\u2019s Day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u201cAnd\u2026action!\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for stop\u00adping by, every\u00adone. I&nbsp;hope you all have a&nbsp;great Valen\u00adtines Day. Good luck in the drawing!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2621\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sig.png\" alt width=\"126\" height=\"65\"><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wel\u00adcome to my website!\u00c2&nbsp;I\u2019m Alan\u00adna Coca, and I&nbsp;write con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary romances, and I\u2019ve dab\u00adbled in\u00c2&nbsp;his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal west\u00adern romance.\u00c2&nbsp; Feel free to click over to my Books page, because one win\u00adner will receive&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WdCY-VX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}