{"id":15769,"date":"2021-03-01T20:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=15769"},"modified":"2021-03-01T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:41:13","slug":"5-dates-to-fight-the-winter-blahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/dating\/5-dates-to-fight-the-winter-blahs\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Dates to Fight the Winter Blahs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The winter blahs might make you ignore your partner and binge on TV shows, but you need to\u00a0 keep your love life spicy. Here are five outside dates to keep the flames burning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Take a Meal on the Street<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seek out the local food trucks in your city and walk there for lunch. Choose a different truck for each course and a tantalizing dessert. Try a portion of new ethnic food, or share your favorite grilled cheese. Turn on some music and find a sunny bench to bask in the sun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Find Treasures Together<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treasure hunting with your date is a great way to learn about each other. The local flea market gives you a chance to locate mid-century lamps, odd art pieces, or even <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tchotchkes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you both enjoy. Buy a small gift from a vendor or if you\u2019ve been a couple longer, it&#8217;s time to buy something together for your home.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Zoom Down the Hills<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grab warm clothes and snow boots, as the two of you hit the snow-crusted hills for a thrilling joy ride. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/archive\/snow-tubing-becomes-fun-alternative-us-ski-resorts\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VOA News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> described tubing: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The great thing about snow tubing, as opposed to sledding, is that you don&#8217;t have to continually walk back up the hill after sliding down. Each snow tube has a tethered rubber ring that attaches to a tow rope or tow wire at the bottom of the hill.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t forget to share a warm spiked drink by the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Explore Together<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go to a part of your city you have not explored and spend half the day there.\u00a0 Grab some coffee and seek out interesting architecture, bridges, or sculptures in the area. Snap some fun photos or videos!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Build Sandcastles<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are lucky enough to have a beach nearby, construct a gigantic sandcastle together. Stay until the tide creeps in and breaks the castle walls. Listen to the waves crashing while holding hands.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winter blahs might make you ignore your partner and binge on TV shows, but you need to\u00a0 keep your love life spicy. Here are five outside dates to keep the flames burning.\u00a0 Take a Meal on the Street Seek out the local food trucks in your city and walk there for lunch. Choose a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[682],"tags":[734,727],"class_list":["post-15769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dating","tag-date","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}