{"id":191,"date":"2011-02-02T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T07:52:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T07:52:02","slug":"day-two-opening-day-and-new-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/2011\/02\/02\/day-two-opening-day-and-new-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Two: Opening Day &#8211; and New Finds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/TUj70VzimjI\/AAAAAAAAHP8\/ex2Y6xPw0SQ\/s1600\/etienne.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/TUj70VzimjI\/AAAAAAAAHP8\/ex2Y6xPw0SQ\/s320\/etienne.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>It was opening day for AGTA &#038; GJX &#8211; I stopped in but the shows are too busy (it&#8217;s a good thing) to get good photos and since I will be speaking on a panel there tomorrow &#8211; I decided to take photos then. \u00a0But it was great to catch up with people and actually hold pieces in your hand that\u00a0you&#8217;ve only seen in photos.<\/p>\n<p>Etienne Perret&#8217;s work with colored diamonds is spectacular and the gem ceramic pieces are lovely but the feel really great on your skin&#8230;the piece on the left &#8211; hands down winner for both me and AnnMarie (one of my roomies). \u00a0The feel of the pearl on your hand was silky smooth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etienneperret.com\/\">Etienne Perret<\/a><br \/>\nAGTA GemFair, Booth 1623<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;anyway I will cover AGTA and \u00a0GJX later &#8211; I just had to gush!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4875325186336119095-2518321361489377552?l=tucsongemshow.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was opening day for AGTA &amp; GJX &#8211; I stopped in but the shows are too busy (it&#8217;s a good thing) to get good photos and since I will be speaking on a panel there tomorrow &#8211; I decided to take photos then. \u00a0But it was great to catch up with people and ac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}