{"id":272,"date":"2009-12-18T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T15:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2009-12-18T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T15:18:44","slug":"2009-open-house-and-chocolate-tasting-finals-giving-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"2009 Open house and chocolate tasting finals + giving back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday Dec 22nd will be our annual Christmas Open House at Kerstin&#8217;s Chocolates. Come down to the shop between 3pm and 7pm and enjoy a warming cup of hot drinking chocolate with or without extra &#8220;cheer&#8221;. There might also be some samples of some of our upcoming products to taste. Then at 7pm, stay on to see the final showdown in our &#8220;Name That Origin&#8221; competition. The winners of the first phase of the contest along with the randomly chosen wildcard entrants will battle to see who can outlast everyone else in a chocolate taste-off. As noted, the winner will receive a $400 gift certificate to use at the shop. No pressure at all! We will have two celebrity officials observing the competition: Edmonton Journal columnist Scott McKeen and the Edible Prairie&#8217;s Jennifer Cockrall King. Come one come all and celebrate with us!<\/p>\n<p>One more thing: We want to give back to the developing world a little this year (since that is where cocoa comes from) so we will be sending 20% of sales of Chocophilia Products on Dec 22nd to one of our favorite local charities, <span>Change for Children<\/span>. Find out more about them on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changeforchildren.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday Dec 22nd will be our annual Christmas Open House at Kerstin&#8217;s Chocolates. Come down to the shop between 3pm and 7pm and enjoy a warming cup of hot drinking chocolate with or without extra &#8220;cheer&#8221;. There might also be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/?p=272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,17,4],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-events","category-retail-news","tag-change-for-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}