{"id":394,"date":"2018-02-13T04:19:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/?p=394"},"modified":"2018-02-13T04:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:19:46","slug":"the-diary-of-a-chocolate-snob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/2018\/02\/13\/the-diary-of-a-chocolate-snob\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of a Chocolate Snob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the third week of class I felt that I had gotten more out of the contemplative exercise than I had previously. I truly\u00a0gained some insight into myself that was different than the weeks before.\u00a0 It was different because I didn&#8217;t want to acknowledge it.\u00a0 Coincidentally I worked for an German Chocolatier and when I was in high school.\u00a0 Before starting the contemplative practice, I had myself convinced I already knew everything there was to know about chocolate.\u00a0 Essentially, this meant I knew<strong>\u00a0how\u00a0<\/strong>it was grown and produced.\u00a0 I knew\u00a0<strong>where\u00a0<\/strong>it was grown.\u00a0 I was taught about high-end European\u00a0chocolate by a someone who was proud of their craft.\u00a0 I was molded into a chocolate snob, unsatisfied by a Snickers Bar or Reese&#8217;s Cup because I could &#8220;Taste the wax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not once did anyone tell me that the cacao pods that I educated consumers about, the same pods that became fancy imported bulk chocolate, which was turned into locally hand-crafted artisan\u00a0candies, may have been farmed at the hands of children&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What I learned about myself was deeper than in the first two weeks because I could see how having a preexisting bias made me wish I could be blind to the truth.\u00a0 I let the chocolate snob inside me tell me that I could still love expensive chocolate.\u00a0 That I could still buy luxury chocolates for my friends and family.\u00a0 That I could still feel the way I had felt about chocolate and forget what I just learned.\u00a0 I realized that since I had that capability; that the rest of the world has that capability.\u00a0 If we don&#8217;t want to face the facts, we won&#8217;t.\u00a0 If we already think we know the truth it will be harder to change our minds.\u00a0 It makes me think that education about the topics we\u2019ve been covering in class needs to start from a younger age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the third week of class I felt that I had gotten more out of the contemplative exercise than I had previously. I truly\u00a0gained some insight into myself that was different than the weeks before.\u00a0 It was different because I didn&#8217;t want to acknowledge it.\u00a0 Coincidentally I worked for an German Chocolatier and when I was in high school.\u00a0 Before&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/2018\/02\/13\/the-diary-of-a-chocolate-snob\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[134,107,103,57,39],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemplative-practices","category-week-3","tag-child-labor","tag-chocolate","tag-fair-trade","tag-food-justice","tag-local-food-sourcing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}