{"id":201,"date":"2006-09-29T18:59:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T01:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=201"},"modified":"2006-09-29T18:59:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T01:59:16","slug":"mmmm-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Mmmm&#8230; chocolate&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woo-hoo!  I am one of three winners in author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinbrande.com\/\"><strong>Robin Brande&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> monthly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinbrande.com\/chocolate\/on-a-much-happier-note-september-chocolate-winners\"><strong>Free Chocolate<\/strong><\/a> givaway!  How awesome is that?  When you enter, she asks for an essay explaining exactly why you should win.  I gave her 3 compelling reasons, which I think gave me an edge:<\/p>\n<p>1.  I like her blog.  Really, I&#8217;m not just brown-nosing &#8211; she&#8217;s quite funny and smart, and apparently has a lot of willpower, since she keeps giving up things like chocolate and tortilla chips.  I even put a handy link to it over in the &#8220;Seven Impossible Children&#8217;s Book Blogs and Sites&#8221; list, so you guys could check it out too.<\/p>\n<p>2.  I really need a bigger ass.  I mean, doesn&#8217;t everybody?<\/p>\n<p>3.  She and I have a weird connection:  on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinbrande.com\/about\/\"><strong>&#8220;about&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> page, she describes her Broadway debut in <em>The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee<\/em>.  See, my husband is a set designer who frequently works with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barringtonstageco.org\/\"><strong>Barrington Stage Company<\/strong><\/a>, where that show premiered before it moved to NY.  Small world!  See?  Tenuous obscure connection = give me chocolate!<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what reasons Brooke and Marci gave&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Go forth, chocolate lovers!  Enter!  Next month it could be you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woo-hoo! I am one of three winners in author Robin Brande&#8217;s monthly Free Chocolate givaway! How awesome is that? When you enter, she asks for an essay explaining exactly why you should win. I gave her 3 compelling reasons, which I think gave me an edge: 1. I like her blog. Really, I&#8217;m not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}