{"id":12830,"date":"2020-07-07T23:12:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T05:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2020-07-07T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T05:15:11","slug":"life-happens-chocolate-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/life-happens-chocolate-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Happens. Chocolate Helps."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today happened to be National Chocolate Day \u2013 which means you could eat all the chocolate you wanted and not feel guilty about it!&nbsp; Truth is my husband is the one addicted to&nbsp; chocolate at our house and I\u2019m more of a caramel fan myself, but with it being a National holiday of chocolate I felt it would be wrong not to partake\u2026.after all, not eating a bunch of chocolate today would be like celebrating the Fourth of July without any fireworks, or Easter without any eggs, or a birthday without cake\u2026it would just be wrong\u2026.so chocolate milk, chocolate covered ice cream, and chocolate bars were my food of choice today\u2026as they should have been\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you who somehow allowed this National day of Chocolate to slip by you without paying tribute as you should have I suggest you REPENT IMMEDIATELY and make-up for it by throwing a belated celebration taking in all things chocolate tomorrow\u2026it feels like that would be the right thing to do\u2026&nbsp; And because I\u2019m a good friend, I will support you in your repentance process by celebrating right alongside you so you know you aren\u2019t in it alone \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far this year life\u2019s handed all of us a bunch of lemons in the form of a seemingly never ending pandemic.&nbsp; Normally I would say when life hands us lemons we should make lemonade but keeping in the spirit of today\u2019s holiday perhaps the better advice is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When life hands you lemons, throw them back and yell \u201cI wanted chocolate!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life happens. Chocolate helps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Awesome-Looks-Like-Business\/dp\/1946633763\">What Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business &amp; Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today happened to be National Chocolate Day \u2013 which means you could eat all the chocolate you wanted and not feel guilty about it!&nbsp; Truth is my husband is the one addicted to&nbsp; chocolate at our house and I\u2019m more of a caramel fan myself, but with it being a National holiday of chocolate I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23898,23893,395,23897,15775,2207,12753,1431,23889,1680,23884,23890,23892,23895,23896,23888,21221,23899,7001,23885,23064,23894,23891,19932,8128,23886,23887],"class_list":["post-12830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-addicted-to-chocolate","tag-all-things-chocolate","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-birthday-without-cake","tag-candy-bar","tag-caramel","tag-celebrate-the-small-things","tag-celebration","tag-chocaholic","tag-chocolate","tag-chocolate-helps","tag-chocolate-milk","tag-chocolate-sauce","tag-easter-without-eggs","tag-fourth-of-july-without-fireworks","tag-hersheys","tag-life-happens","tag-life-happens-chocolate-helps","tag-look-for-the-good","tag-national-chocolate-day","tag-pandemic","tag-reasons-to-celebrate","tag-tru-moo","tag-what-awesome-looks-like","tag-when-bad-things-happen","tag-when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-lemonade","tag-when-life-gives-you-lemons-throw-them-back-and-ask-for-chocolate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12832,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions\/12832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}