{"id":748,"date":"2010-10-05T16:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T21:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2010-10-05T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T21:34:08","slug":"rare-pink-diamond-or-what-planet-do-you-live-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/rare-pink-diamond-or-what-planet-do-you-live-on\/748\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Pink Diamond – or, What Planet Do You Live On?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw this in the news today: Sotheby’s is going to be offering a 24.78 karat, uber rare pink diamond for sale next month: <\/p>\n

\"Rare<\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n

Just for giggles, let’s compare it to these:<\/p>\n

\"Pink<\/a><\/center>
\nPink 12mm x 10mm vintage glass diamond jewels I have available in my Etsy shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course the two are worlds apart, and the cut of the diamond is incomparable. <\/p>\n

However – the diamond is expected to fetch up to $38 million dollars at auction. Yes. That was “thirty eight MILLION”. <\/p>\n

The vintage glass jewels sell for $3.19 a pair. <\/p>\n

So my point is, both are pretty. Yes, absolutely, the diamond is rare and incalculable and like that, but — who buys stuff like that? This isn’t even sour grapes on my part. Why would a person want something like that? Just to show it off? Well, yeah, but — I mean, who cares? It’s simply a cultural \/ ethnic \/ socioeconomic gap so wide it’s funny. <\/p>\n

I mean – what planet do THEY live on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saw this in the news today: Sotheby’s is going to be offering a 24.78 karat, uber rare pink diamond for sale next month: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Just for giggles, let’s compare it to these:<\/p>\n

Pink 12mm x 10mm vintage glass diamond jewels I have available in my Etsy shop.<\/p>\n

Of course the two are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,77,13,16],"tags":[317,64],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-general-interest","category-paper_jewelry","category-shopping","tag-diy","tag-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}