{"id":1708,"date":"2011-03-14T13:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2011-03-14T13:35:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T20:35:19","slug":"hot-chocolate-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Hot Chocolate Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Lake Granby Panorama by ReeseCLloyd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/reeselloyd\/4335128967\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4335128967_3dee06fc31.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Granby Panorama\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winter may seem to be passing us by for another year, but I&#8217;m certain we&#8217;re not completely done yet.\u00c2\u00a0 There is sure to be more snow to come, at least for me, and I&#8217;ll be needing a way to keep warm.\u00c2\u00a0 Problem is, I don&#8217;t much like <a title=\"CH - Drunken Cider\" href=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=684\" target=\"_blank\">hot<\/a> <a title=\"CH - Coffee\" href=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=913\">beverages<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 While they are <a title=\"CH - Hot Toddy\" href=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1609\">growing on me<\/a>, I&#8217;m not a total convert yet.\u00c2\u00a0 However, there is one drink that might just be able to take the convert title, Hot Chocolate.\u00c2\u00a0 I love a good mug of hot chocolate on a cold day.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s sweet, warming and just down right tasty.<\/p>\n<p>At the gentle prodding of my roommate this seemed like a perfect time to see what I could do to add some spirits to the standard hot chocolate.\u00c2\u00a0 So, for the next couple weeks I&#8217;m going to be doing just that.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got some ideas already in the hopper, but I&#8217;d love to hear what you all like to do to spike your hot chocolate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter may seem to be passing us by for another year, but I&#8217;m certain we&#8217;re not completely done yet.\u00c2\u00a0 There is sure to be more snow to come, at least for me, and I&#8217;ll be needing a way to keep warm.\u00c2\u00a0 Problem is, I don&#8217;t much like hot beverages.\u00c2\u00a0 While they are growing on me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[202,167],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-general","tag-hot-chocolate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}