{"id":25766,"date":"2020-02-15T07:46:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=25766"},"modified":"2020-02-15T07:46:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T13:46:42","slug":"how-to-get-a-date-for-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2020\/02\/15\/how-to-get-a-date-for-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get a Date for Valentine’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valentine\u2019s Day is right around the corner and many of us don\u2019t have boyfriends, girlfriends, or otherwise called romantic partners to share the holiday with. Unfortunately for us, it\u2019s impossible to enjoy Valentine\u2019s Day without one. After all, celebrating platonic and familial love is so second grade.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry. Even if it\u2019s the last moment, there\u2019s still time. Here are a few simple ways to get a date to enjoy the holiday with.<\/p>\n

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  1. Look around the room you\u2019re sitting in right now and find the nearest person of your preferred gender(s). If there are none, get up and walk out of the room. Walk until you find someone. As soon as you see them, whether you know their name or have ever seen them before, ask them out. If they don\u2019t have a significant other, they\u2019ll probably be desperate enough to take anyone, just like you. Need ideas for how to do it? Isabel Chen\u2019s <\/strong>article \u201cISMA Pick-Up Lines for Ethically Creative Teens\u201d<\/a> is for you.<\/li>\n
  2. Maybe you\u2019re more discerning in the matters of life and love, and you won\u2019t settle for just anyone. If your crush is single, you could shoot your shot and ask them out, but why do that when they might say \u201cno\u201d? It\u2019s better to be safe and only spend time with people you don\u2019t actually care about. Even so, you might as well make sure those people are attractive. Make an Excel spreadsheet of all the people you know who might say \u201cyes\u201d to you and rate them by their attractiveness and other qualities of your choosing. Now, go down the list and ask each person out. By the end of the day, you should have the perfect date.<\/li>\n
  3. If all else fails, you can always ask your best friend out. Make it clear that it\u2019s not really romantic and spend the day making over the top gestures to one another. Insult Valentine\u2019s Day and all the cheesy couples who love it while feeding each other chocolate. Watch a rom-com and detail to each other all the ways it\u2019s unrealistic. Offer to them the largest bouquet of roses you could find from the picked-over selection at the grocery store. And remember, you\u2019re not really celebrating Valentine\u2019s Day or love, but pointing out how dumb it is to the rest of the world.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Armed with these strategies, you\u2019ll be sure to have some sort of date to help you survive the holiday. All-day long, you can smile at each other while eating chocolate and smelling flowers, and then afterwards\u2026. Yeah, don\u2019t ask us. Advice about healthy relationships is way above our pay grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Valentine\u2019s Day is right around the corner and many of us don\u2019t have boyfriends, girlfriends, or otherwise called romantic partners to share the holiday with….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":25767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2490],"tags":[2209],"coauthors":[2748],"class_list":["post-25766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-valentines-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25878,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766\/revisions\/25878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25766"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}