{"id":12561,"date":"2013-02-20T08:59:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2013-02-20T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:18:04","slug":"thanks-for-making-me-a-finalist-in-the-foods-from-chile-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/thanks-for-making-me-a-finalist-in-the-foods-from-chile-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for making me a finalist in the Foods From Chile contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/774361_398014260292069_1415325770_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12563\" alt=\"Foods From Chile Blogger Contest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/774361_398014260292069_1415325770_o-640x533.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/774361_398014260292069_1415325770_o-640x533.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/774361_398014260292069_1415325770_o-300x250.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/774361_398014260292069_1415325770_o.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Guess what?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Your<\/strong> votes made me a finalist in the <a href=\"http:\/\/foodsfromchile.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foods From Chile<\/a> Next Top Blogger Contest, which means I&#8217;m one step closer to an amazing culinary adventure in Chile, thanks to you and your influence on my behalf!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>THANK YOU SO MUCH!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Yesterday I shot a video explaining why I think the judges should pick me, as each of the other 9 finalists did, as well.<\/p>\n<p>The judges will take a look at that and <a href=\"http:\/\/vinesleuth.com\/uncorked\/help-me-explore-foods-from-chile-and-share-them-with-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">my entry post <\/a>and make their decision by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Will I get to go to Chile again, this time exploring some of its vineyards, olive groves and fruit plantations up close? Will I get to visit the Mercado Central in Santiago\u00a0and Nam Santiago Food Festival and get to\u00a0share my experiences with you?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the answer just yet, but I do know that I have some of the best fans out there. So thanks, everyone, for your support in getting me to this point. I&#8217;ve got my fingers crossed for the judging that&#8217;s taking place now, but I already feel so fortunate to have made it this far.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Oooh! I can almost taste all that fresh, delicious fruit, vegetables and seafood&#8230; and all those wines&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what? Your votes made me a finalist in the Foods From Chile Next Top Blogger Contest, which means I&#8217;m one step closer to an amazing culinary adventure in Chile, thanks to you and your influence on my behalf! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Yesterday I shot a video explaining why I think the judges should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal","category-moms-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12569,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions\/12569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}