{"id":36,"date":"2006-03-31T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.butterflyrocket.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2006-03-31T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T03:46:09","slug":"the-chocolate-drinking-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"The chocolate drinking ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rohan had a meeting in the city this afternoon so Eloise and I headed into town for a quick peruse of the shops before picking him up. I love visiting the city, especially late night shopping. With areas like <a title=\"Melbourne QV\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qv.com.au\/index.html\">QV<\/a>, the revamped <a title=\"Melbourne Central\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournecentral.com.au\/llretail\/melbournecentral\/main.nsf\/\">Melbourne Central<\/a> and <a title=\"Federation Square\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.federationsquare.com.au\/\">Fed Square<\/a>, it&#8217;s really come alive.<\/p>\n<p>After a quick bite to eat we all headed for <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Max Brenner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxbrenner.com.au\">Max Brenner<\/a> in QV and indulged in hot chocolate. It was a gorgeous evening sitting outside. Not too hot, not too cold. Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I go to Max Brenner&#8217;s I ooo and ahhhh over the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxbrenner.com.au\/maxgifts\/showGift.asp?id=34\">Alice<\/a> cup and the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hug Mug\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxbrenner.com.au\/maxgifts\/showGift.asp?id=33\">Hug Mug<\/a>. This time I was soooo close to making a purchase but I controlled myself. How many cups\/mugs\/teacups does a girl need? (Okay, okay you can never have to many&#8230;can you?!). The praline <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Max Brenner Pralines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxbrenner.com.au\/maxgifts\/showGift.asp?id=26\">chocolates<\/a> are really pretty too and the packaging is lovely. I also refrained from buying a sweet little cardboard package (with handle) containing just two pralines. I was very good wasn&#8217;t I? But it really was a very clever little box&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohan had a meeting in the city this afternoon so Eloise and I headed into town for a quick peruse of the shops before picking him up. I love visiting the city, especially late night shopping. With areas like QV, the revamped Melbourne Central and Fed Square, it&#8217;s really come alive. After a quick bite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-and-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}