{"id":174677295,"date":"2013-01-28T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howlucky.posterous.com\/chocolates-in-january"},"modified":"2014-05-01T03:03:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T03:03:28","slug":"chocolates-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/2013\/01\/28\/chocolates-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolates in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the days turn colder and the excitement of the holiday season dies down, we find ourselves looking for warmth and quiet comfort. I found both at <a title=\"Rubens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rubenschocolate.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Rubens<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month. \u00a0Bundled up in my scarf and red coat, I went inside and ordered strawberry tea for myself and hot chocolate for my husband, Ryan. I paired my beverage with my two favourite chocolates: passionfruit matcha and English toffee. Ryan opted for their sinfully delicious brownie.<\/p>\n<p>We sipped and munched away happily while I tried to decide how to spend the rest of my $50 this month. My thoughts turned first to my parents. \u00a0My Dad who was celebrating his name&#8217;s day in a few days, got the milk chocolate almond bark (his favourite Rubens product). \u00a0My Mom, who was planning a dinner party for 30+ people, got some sugar-free chocolate (diabetes is no fun). \u00a0Then, I remembered a friend who had just been fired. Chocolate therapy was in order and green apple truffles were the remedy of the day.<\/p>\n<p>A chocolate fruit assortment was intended for another friend, but due to a bad day I had later in the month, it never reached her. \u00a0I can tell you, though, sometimes a little selfishness is very, very necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>For those of you following my winning ways, I am still entering contests. \u00a0Watch this space for updates!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the days turn colder and the excitement of the holiday season dies down, we find ourselves looking for warmth and quiet comfort. I found both at Rubens earlier this month. Bundled up in my scarf and red coat, I went inside and ordered strawberr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[15,16,17,18,13,19,20,21],"class_list":["post-174677295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-almondbark","tag-brownie","tag-chocolatetherapy","tag-hotchocolate","tag-rubenschocolate","tag-sugar-freechocolate","tag-tea","tag-truffles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174677295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174677295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174677295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174677406,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174677295\/revisions\/174677406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174677295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174677295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174677295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}