{"id":497,"date":"2008-03-10T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T12:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2008-03-10T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T12:01:12","slug":"real-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Real Diamonds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I showed off my new Cubic Zirconium ear ring to the women at work, one woman commented that I needed to step up to the counter and buy the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>After I thought about it for awhile, I decided that I could probably buy a cheap pair of diamond ear rings.  After all, only a jeweler would know the  difference and then only by examining them with a magnifying glass.<\/p>\n<p>But, by the same token, only a jeweler could tell the difference between a diamond and a Cubic Zirconium.   So, unless some one asks if the diamond is real, they would assume that it is a fake.  And, it would be improper to announce that the ear ring is a real diamond.  So, since everyone would assume that the diamond is a fake, I might as well wear the fake.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I have better things to do with my money like buying a Marshall stack.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I showed off my new Cubic Zirconium ear ring to the women at work, one woman commented that I needed to step up to the counter and buy the real thing. After I thought about it for awhile, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=497\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-81","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}