{"id":16877,"date":"2018-02-22T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T08:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=16877"},"modified":"2018-02-21T23:19:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T23:19:54","slug":"valentines-day-supposed-love-aj-sarpong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/valentines-day-supposed-love-aj-sarpong\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u2019s Day Is Supposed To Be About Love \u2014 AJ Sarpong"},"content":{"rendered":"

AJ Sarpong has a bone to pick with Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n

GHOne Presenter AJ Sarpong bemoans the commercialization of the Valentine’s Day holiday.<\/p>\n

According to her, the holiday has lost its roots in love. However, it is now rather causing depression among people who have bought into the hype.<\/p>\n

Sarpong was contributing on the Celebrity Fanzone last weekend. She was responding to claims by Counsellor George Lutterodt that churches in the country had adopted Valentine\u2019s Day and was making it seem like a celebration.<\/p>\n

Thoughts From AJ Sarpong About Valentine’s Day<\/h4>\n

\u201cFrankly I disagree with counselor there. There is so much emphasis on sex on Valentine day, so much and there are very impressionable youth all around us who are now attributing Valentine\u2019s Day to that.<\/em><\/p>\n

And with the whole commercialization of Valentine\u2019s day, buy flowers, buy teddy bear\u2026there is a lot of depression on that day especially of you don\u2019t have a loved one. So it is nice that the church also tries and promote that as well.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think the church should bridge the gap and promote something else other than sex. If you don\u2019t have that loved one, perhaps then it is a day to show love to the Lord.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AJ Sarpong has a bone to pick with Valentine’s Day. GHOne Presenter AJ Sarpong bemoans the commercialization of the Valentine’s Day holiday. According to her, the holiday has lost its roots in love. However, it is now rather causing depression among people who have bought into the hype. Sarpong was contributing on the Celebrity Fanzone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6037,"featured_media":16880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16881,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions\/16881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}