{"id":14956,"date":"2014-01-05T01:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T09:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14956"},"modified":"2014-01-05T01:25:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T09:25:37","slug":"never-a-bad-time-for-chocolate-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/never-a-bad-time-for-chocolate-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Never a Bad Time For Chocolate Festival!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/chocsal.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ahhh Chocolate! The \u00a0elixir that holds a hosts of &#8220;feel good&#8221; ingredients is delicious any day, any time. But after the holidays have left us empty-handed with all the special foods, drinks and good vibrations just memories, a dose of chocolate may be just what you need. Perhaps that&#8217;s why chocolate festivals do so well in the months following December. Here are a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-chocolate-festivals.html\">chocolate festivals and events<\/a> to get you energized within the next several weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SANTA CRUZ<\/strong> &#8211; Chocolate Festival at Cocoanut Grove on Sunday, <strong>January 19<\/strong>, 2014 1-4 p.m.\u00a0$15 for 6 tastes. santacruzchocolatefestival.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>BELMONT SHORE<\/strong> &#8211; Belmont Shore Chocolate Festival along 2nd Street on Saturday,<strong> February 8<\/strong>, 2014,\u00a01-4 p.m. $10 for book of 12 tickets, belmontshore.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>ESCONDIDO<\/strong> &#8211; For the Love of Chocolate Festival in Downtown Escondido on Saturday, <strong>February 8<\/strong>, 2014, 1-5 p.m. $35 for 10 Chocolate &amp; Wine Pairings. downtownescondido.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>LODI<\/strong> &#8211; Wine &amp; Chocolate\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>February 8-9<\/strong>, 2014, 11 a.m. &#8211; 4 p.m. lodiwineandchocolate.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh Chocolate! The \u00a0elixir that holds a hosts of &#8220;feel good&#8221; ingredients is delicious any day, any time. But after the holidays have left us empty-handed with all the special foods, drinks and good vibrations just memories, a dose of chocolate may be just what you need. Perhaps that&#8217;s why chocolate festivals do so well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}