{"id":81,"date":"2012-02-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/confessions-of-a-chocoholic\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:00:00","slug":"confessions-of-a-chocoholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/confessions-of-a-chocoholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Chocoholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>If a sweet tooth can be genetically passed on, then my love of chocolate is an inherited trait from my paternal grandmother. Frequently, when we&#8217;d make the trip to visit her, we&#8217;d pick up some chocolate frozen custard for her (and us) to enjoy. If we wanted a treat or dessert for grandma, we knew she&#8217;d most enjoy the chocolate ones. And I&#8217;m the same way.<\/p>\n<p>In my humble opinion a dessert is not a dessert unless it is partially or wholly made up of this delectable ingredient, but it has to be the right kind. I don&#8217;t mean like European vs. American chocolate, though I do appreciate the creaminess of the chocolate from across the ocean. I&#8217;m really not a big chocolate candy or bar fan. I much prefer something with real chocolate substance like gooey brownies with ice cream, fresh-baked cookies or moist cake.<\/p>\n<p>But if we&#8217;re out of the good stuff, then I may slightly lower my chocolate expectations to include hot fudge a la mode, or lower them further still to snitch a piece of candy from the kids&#8217; stash. I will admit to even pilfering chocolate chips in times of a chocolate famine.<i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Are you a chocoholic? If so, what type of chocolate do you prefer? What&#8217;s your favorite dessert?&nbsp; <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a sweet tooth can be genetically passed on, then my love of chocolate is an inherited trait from my paternal grandmother. Frequently, when we&#8217;d make the trip to visit her, we&#8217;d pick up some chocolate frozen custard for her (and us) to enjoy. If we wanted a treat or dessert for grandma, we knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}