{"id":278,"date":"2008-10-22T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2008-10-22T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T02:06:10","slug":"diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I talk about this with people sometimes, and then I realize I am never doing this article justice.  Then one of my friends with whom I have shared this article wanted to find it again and couldn&#8217;t, and the first thing I searched was my blog, and apparently I have never linked it.  She wanted to find it because when discussing it she couldn&#8217;t do it justice either.<\/p>\n<p>I highly encourage you to read <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/198202\/diamond\">Have You Ever Tried To Sell A Diamond<\/A> &#8211; it has everything from how the Ayer plan put the concept of &#8220;diamond engagement ring&#8221; into the public consciousness through Hollywood (after noticing decreasing diamond sales at the turn of the century) to DeBeers&#8217; stranglehold quota system, and everything in between.<\/p>\n<p>If you can read about how the industry players have suckered us into thinking that diamonds are incredibly precious yet have almost zero resale value and still want to buy a diamond, then go right ahead.  It&#8217;s your money, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I talk about this with people sometimes, and then I realize I am never doing this article justice. Then one of my friends with whom I have shared this article wanted to find it again and couldn&#8217;t, and the first thing I searched was my blog, and apparently I have never linked it. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}