{"id":44800,"date":"2024-11-26T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=44800"},"modified":"2024-12-26T13:34:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T21:34:57","slug":"holiday-chocolate-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/events\/holiday-chocolate-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday chocolate events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping for last-minute holiday gifts? Chocolate is one of the best all-around options especially for your hard-to-buy-for list. There are so many options in chocolate that you can find something they will genuinely enjoy that\u2019s also within your budget \u2014 a win-win!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44928\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/gingerbread-house.jpg\" alt=\"Life-size gingerbread house\" width=\"520\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/gingerbread-house.jpg 520w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/gingerbread-house-320x390.jpg 320w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/gingerbread-house-400x488.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 85vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maybe also visit the Fairmont Hotel\u2019s giant \u00a0gingerbread house decorated with See\u2019s chocolates and candies if you\u2019re shopping in the city<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And if you live in SFBA you can support local chocolate businesses by buying their chocolate products \u2014 a win-win-win!! If you prefer to shop in person, you can visit places on our <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/diy-tours\/\">DIY Tours pages<\/a> which are broken down by area\/neighborhood \u2014 or you can take advantage of the many local holiday fairs and pop-ups occurring between now and the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>We have compiled a partial list of these in our <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/events\/\">Events Calendar<\/a>. We have included the local chocolate and confections vendors we know are slated to be there. There will likely be more such vendors and more such events but we have a hard time tracking them down.<\/p>\n<p>Hey SFBA chocolate makers, chocolatiers, confectioners, and other chocolate related businesses: Give us all a heads up on where you will be. Please promote your special appearances on your websites, social media, and newsletters \u2014 we can\u2019t come if we don\u2019t know where you are!<\/p>\n<p>We will try to keep our calendar current on this site. If you want to be sure we include your upcoming events, you can <a href=\"mailto:nancy@chocolatebythebay.com\">email us with the deets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what to get someone this holiday season? Chocolate goes with everything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[829,1650],"class_list":["post-44800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-diy-tours","tag-special-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44800","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44800"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44929,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44800\/revisions\/44929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}