{"id":13703,"date":"2013-02-20T09:12:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vinesleuth.com\/uncorked\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2013-02-20T09:12:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:12:02","slug":"thanks-for-making-me-a-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/thanks-for-making-me-a-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for Making Me a Finalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vinesleuth.com\/uncorked\/thanks-for-making-me-a-finalist\/774361_398014260292069_1415325770_o\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4848\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4848 aligncenter\" title=\"Foods from Chile Blogger Contest\" alt=\"Foods From Chile\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/774361_398014260292069_1415325770_o-1024x8531.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guess what?<\/p>\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<p>THANK YOU SO MUCH!<\/p>\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>Oooh! I can almost taste all the fresh, delicious fruit, vegetables and seafood&#8230; and all those wines&#8230;<\/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":127,"featured_media":4848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[623,624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mtb-archive","category-wine-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703","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\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}