{"id":15261,"date":"2020-04-07T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=15261"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:47:03","slug":"chocolate-vs-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/chocolate-vs-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate vs. COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15299\" style=\"width: 354px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15299 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Chocolate-Corona-Virus-swirl.png\" alt=\"Chocolate Corona Virus\" width=\"354\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Chocolate-Corona-Virus-swirl.png 354w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Chocolate-Corona-Virus-swirl-320x271.png 320w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Chocolate-Corona-Virus-swirl-348x295.png 348w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Chocolate-Corona-Virus-swirl-200x169.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 85vw, 354px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our chocolate version of the original CDC illustration of COVID-19 by Alissa Eckert and Dan Higgins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every aspect of our lives, including our home chocolate stash. Many chocolate makers and chocolatiers closed their shops because of state directives. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/03\/28\/sees-candies-coronavirus-suspending-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>See\u2019s Candies<\/strong>\u00a0suspended production<\/a> for the first time since WWII.<\/p>\n<p>But not to worry, local chocolate vendors are re-opening in limited ways, and a lot of them are shipping chocolate. So while we should all stay home to flatten the curve, please continue to support your local chocolate makers and chocolatiers by ordering online.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them have online stores, or at least a way to contact them from their websites to check if they are shipping\/offering delivery\/doing curbside pickup and to place orders. Some offer special deals.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t need any chocolate right now (ha!), buy a gift certificate. If you can\u2019t afford anything at the moment, sign up for their emails\/newsletters, so you can get alerted to special deals.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not SFBA local, you can still order from many of our chocolate vendors. Or check to see what your local chocolate makers\/chocolatiers are doing in these trying times and order something from them. It will help them stay in business and help you stay happy too.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody stay well \u2014 and well chocolated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support your local chocolate vendors during these unprecedented times, if you can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,15,41],"tags":[74,1147,1146,316,97,73,935,1127,281,1148,1074],"class_list":["post-15261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-bay-chocolate","category-local-chocolate","category-san-francisco-chocolate","tag-charles-chocolates","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-feve-artisan-chocolatier","tag-jade-chocolates","tag-michael-mischer","tag-michaels-chocolates","tag-recchiuti-confections","tag-socola-chocolatier","tag-tinyb-chocolate","tag-veteran-sfba-artisan-chocolatier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45624,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions\/45624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}