{"id":314,"date":"2011-04-04T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rasmussengems.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-04-04T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T01:07:13","slug":"pursuing-my-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/04\/04\/pursuing-my-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursuing My Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #006400\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Now that I am practically working at the bench full time; oh what fun.&nbsp; I only have to clean the house, do laundry, mow the grass, repair all things broken, make meals in my other hours.&nbsp; I am exploring multiple areas at the same time.&nbsp; Debbie came in the shop a couple weeks ago and looked in the gem trays and selected several stones (still have some to go) and asked for some ear rings and a ring.&nbsp; So the lab created Emerald stones, the Apatite ovals and the Zandrite (lab created Alexandrite) became pairs of ear rings.&nbsp; The blue moon trillion became a ring.&nbsp; I hate setting trillion stones as there is no opposite prong to balance the pressure in the setting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=RingandEarRings4021102.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_RingandEarRings4021102.jpg\" alt=\"Private Not for Sale\" style=\"border: 0px none\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nShe also bought me some gemstone chips to make into various pieces of jewelry.&nbsp; I have finished three necklaces and have many many many more chips to go.&nbsp; So here are an 18&quot; Amethyst, a 20&quot; Aquamarine and a 24&quot; Fire Opal necklace.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=GemstoneChip4411.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_GemstoneChip4411.jpg\" alt=\"Gemstone,Necklace,Aquamarine,Amethyst,Fire Opal,Handmade,Unique\" style=\"border: 0px none\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJust click on the thumbnail images and you can see the large image.<\/p>\n<p>John<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I am practically working at the bench full time; oh what fun.&nbsp; I only have to clean the house, do laundry, mow the grass, repair all things broken, make meals in my other hours.&nbsp; I am exploring multiple areas at the same time.&nbsp; Debbie came in the shop a couple weeks ago and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}