{"id":121971,"date":"2021-02-15T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=121971"},"modified":"2021-02-15T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:29:56","slug":"dr-charles-feldman-notes-connection-with-chocolate-and-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2021\/02\/15\/dr-charles-feldman-notes-connection-with-chocolate-and-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Charles Feldman Notes Connection with Chocolate and Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Western culture, romantic letters have been part of Valentine\u2019s Day since the Middle Ages.\u00a0 The connection between chocolate and Valentine\u2019s Day, on the other hand, is a fairly recent one by historical standards, reaching back fewer than 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>Having access to chocolate was a way for the ruling class to assert their dominance, and as such was \u201cassociated with masculinity and virility,\u201d according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~feldmanc\">Dr. Charles Feldman<\/a>, Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/nutrition-and-food-studies\">Nutrition and Food Studies Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/how-chocolate-fell-in-love-with-valentines-day\/\">Read the full, original article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Western culture, romantic letters have been part of Valentine\u2019s Day since the Middle Ages.\u00a0 The connection between chocolate and Valentine\u2019s Day, on the other hand, is a fairly recent one by historical standards, reaching back fewer than 200 years. Having access to chocolate was a way for the ruling class to assert their dominance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}