{"id":37,"date":"2009-02-21T12:49:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T17:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/02\/21\/the-amber-room-8th-wonder-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T12:49:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T17:49:16","slug":"the-amber-room-8th-wonder-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/2009\/02\/21\/the-amber-room-8th-wonder-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amber Room &#8211; 8th Wonder of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/SZ8fik2MERI\/AAAAAAAABa4\/EDTrcl21iK0\/s1600-h\/brief-amber.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4aaa8_brief-amber.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Info for this post is from the Smithsonsian article by Jess Blumberg <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Dubbed the &#8220;Eighth Wonder of the World,&#8221; the room that once symbolized peace was stolen by Nazis then disappeared for good.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>While many Americans associate amber with the casing for dinosaur DNA in 1993&#8217;s Jurassic Park, the stone has enthralled Europeans, and especially Russians, for centuries because of the golden, jewel-encrusted Amber Room, which was made of several tons of the gemstone. A gift to Peter the Great in 1716 celebrating peace between Russia and Prussia, the room&#8217;s fate became anything but peaceful: Nazis looted it during World War II, and in the final months of the war, the amber panels, which had been packed away in crates, disappeared. A replica was completed in 2003, but the contents of the original, dubbed &#8220;the Eighth Wonder of the World,&#8221; have remained missing for decades.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Interested in the whole story? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/world-history\/brief_amber.html\">http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/world-history\/brief_amber.html<\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Info for this post is from the Smithsonsian article by Jess Blumberg Dubbed the &#8220;Eighth Wonder of the World,&#8221; the room that once symbolized peace was stolen by Nazis then disappeared for good. While many Americans associate amber with the casing for dinosaur DNA in 1993&#8217;s Jurassic Park, the stone has enthralled Europeans, and especially [&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\/37"}],"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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}