{"id":178,"date":"2006-12-20T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/romancing-the-stone\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T13:45:22","slug":"romancing-the-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/romancing-the-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Romancing the Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">My good friend Alba got me an emerald. I am amazed that she did so &#8211; the cost, the time, the worry, the getting it to me, wow. I can&#8217;t thank her enough for her thoughtfulness and trouble. If it were cut glass, I couldn&#8217;t love it more. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Recently, I took my little treasure to Johnson&#8217;s Jeweler&#8217;s off of Edward&#8217;s Mill to have it set. Below are pictures of the setting I choose. I picked yellow gold because it seems truer for an emerald than white gold or platinum. I also liked the scroll detail on the sides &#8211; it seems reminiscent of Pre-Colombian art, fitting for my stone. Lastly, I like the partial bezel setting. It&#8217;s safer for both me and the emerald. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Side View:<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_e3TqDsuX4e8\/RYkozEISbjI\/AAAAAAAAAEQ\/WkPD3KPXarU\/s400\/emerald2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">Top View:<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_e3TqDsuX4e8\/RYkomkISbiI\/AAAAAAAAAEI\/o788vH2hbbQ\/s400\/emerald1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Alba got me an emerald. I am amazed that she did so &#8211; the cost, the time, the worry, the getting it to me, wow. I can&#8217;t thank her enough for her thoughtfulness and trouble. If it were cut glass, I couldn&#8217;t love it more. Recently, I took my little treasure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alba","category-gifties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}