{"id":19,"date":"2009-01-19T09:03:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/01\/19\/illinois-senate-seats-for-sale\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T09:03:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T14:03:15","slug":"illinois-senate-seats-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/2009\/01\/19\/illinois-senate-seats-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Senate Seats For Sale!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Newsflash: More Illinois Senate seats are for sale!<\/strong> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Silver and 14k gold chairs are being sold by Peoria, Ill., jeweler Brad Pettet, owner of Pettet Jewelry Designs. Pettet crafted three-quarter-inch replicas to make light of an otherwise serious situation\u2014Gov. Rod Blagojevich being accused of trying to sell the vacant Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama. <\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe whole point of this is to have a little bit of fun,\u201d Pettet said, referring to the governor\u2019s scandal. \u201cPeople say they are embarrassed to be from Illinois. I\u2019m not embarrassed. It\u2019s Chicago politics. You ought to be used to it by now.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Pettet is selling the charms in three forms: sterling silver for $35 each, 14-karat gold for $175 and in platinum, which will go at market prices. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d6437_g1130dad0b17f4e537ecd15396fe42268f8401570e784ad.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>Brad Pettet displays a sterling silver charm shaped like a US Senate seat. Photo by Ron Johnson, Journal Star<\/p>\n<div><span><em>Great job of drawing you in with a twist on a current event! LOL!<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span><em>Today&#8217;s Daily Jewel came from a brief announcement in the JCK Style 360 Blog &#8211; check out all the blogs offered by JCK at:<\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/blog\/1940000194.html\"><span><em>http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/blog\/1940000194.html<\/em><\/span><\/a><span><em> <\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsflash: More Illinois Senate seats are for sale! Silver and 14k gold chairs are being sold by Peoria, Ill., jeweler Brad Pettet, owner of Pettet Jewelry Designs. Pettet crafted three-quarter-inch replicas to make light of an otherwise serious situation\u2014Gov. Rod Blagojevich being accused of trying to sell the vacant Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}