{"id":996,"date":"2010-05-25T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=996"},"modified":"2022-10-20T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T22:05:52","slug":"money-for-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/outsidechocolate\/money-for-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Money for chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the article, \u201cCandy maker issues chocolate bonds,\u201d CBC News of Canada reports that British confectioner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotelchocolat.com\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Chocolat<\/a>, hopes to issue 5 million pounds worth of chocolate bonds. As in, you pay them several thousands of dollars upfront for a guarantee of 3 years of monthly chocolates.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they are British, so the 5 million pounds they are talking about is British money, not literally 5 million pounds of chocolate. And they are serious: There&#8217;s a whole prospectus online if you want to consider the possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prospectus, they plan to use the funds raised to create local manufacturing jobs, work with their growers to develop a sustainable industry, and open more shops across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t know yet if this will be a successful way to raise money, but maybe some of our local chocolatiers might want to try this idea on a smaller scale (unless someone really needs over $7 million) to fund their own expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says you can&#8217;t eat money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,49,13],"tags":[139,347,814],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chocolateroundtheworld","category-chocolate-news","category-outsidechocolate","tag-british-chocolate","tag-hotel-chocolat","tag-chocolate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35473,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/35473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}