{"id":98880816,"date":"2012-02-13T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/croatia-s-museum-for-the-broken-hearted\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:08:03","slug":"croatia-s-museum-for-the-broken-hearted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/croatia-s-museum-for-the-broken-hearted\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia\u2019s Museum for the Broken-Hearted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day isn\u2019t chocolate and roses for everybody. For some, it\u2019s a painful reminder of past relationships and heartache.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For those people, there is the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia. The unique museum in Croatia\u2019s capital houses some 1,000 articles donated by the lovelorn from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From old teddy bears to smashed up furniture, each item in the museum is accompanied by an anonymous note from its former owner explaining the significance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So how does a museum from the broken-hearted fare on love\u2019s biggest day? According to a report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/travel\/2017496658_webmuseumvalentines13.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Seattle Times<\/a>, the museum actually doubles its attendance figures around Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>CC Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whiternoise\/4803112803\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joshua Veitch-Michaellis <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day isn\u2019t chocolate and roses for everybody. For some, it\u2019s a painful reminder of past relationships and heartache. &nbsp; For those people, there is the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia. The unique museum in Croatia\u2019s capital houses some 1,000 articles donated by the lovelorn from around the globe. &nbsp; From old teddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98896989,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880816\/revisions\/98896989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}