{"id":85,"date":"2011-01-13T10:37:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laynedesigns.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=85"},"modified":"2011-01-13T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:37:12","slug":"rock-review-garnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/2011\/01\/13\/rock-review-garnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Review: GARNET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_JflQWmyCxmw\/TS8Z1xipsEI\/AAAAAAAAAIw\/wVisZ9WXJWI\/s1600\/garnet%2BTOP.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;width: 400px;height: 400px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_JflQWmyCxmw\/TS8Z1xipsEI\/AAAAAAAAAIw\/wVisZ9WXJWI\/s400\/garnet%2BTOP.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Happy New Year! With a new year comes a new month, and this month\u2019s beautiful birthstone is GARNET. Typically a red\/brown color, garnet can be found in ANY color except for blue. Personally, one of my favorite garnet hues is a lovely magenta color known as Rhodolite garnet (see picture at the end of the blog post.) Found in abundance in Africa, garnet is also harvested in North and South America as well as in various European countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Derived from the Latin word for <em>pomegranite<\/em>, garnet has been used for centuries for its beauty but also for its supposed \u201clethal\u201d nature. North American Indians used red garnets as arrowheads, believing that they would seek blood and inflict a deadlier wound, while as recently as 1892 the Hunzas of Kasmir used garnets as bullets to fight the British believing that garnets were deadlier than lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Also used frequently by early Christians to symbolize Christ\u2019s sacrifice, and even earlier as a symbol by one of the 12 tribes of Israel, the garnet\u2019s roots in history are as deep as any gemstone. A beautiful stone to highlight during these recently SNOWY, WHITE days of another northeastern US winter! Happy birthday to all garnet babies out there!!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_JflQWmyCxmw\/TS8ajOzXfxI\/AAAAAAAAAJA\/rr8H5w0qGag\/s1600\/Garnet%2BBOTTOM.jpg\"><img style=\"width: 400px;height: 337px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_JflQWmyCxmw\/TS8ajOzXfxI\/AAAAAAAAAJA\/rr8H5w0qGag\/s400\/Garnet%2BBOTTOM.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Find this piece @<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/64337710\/sweet-sparkle-garnet-january-birthstone\">http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/64337710\/sweet-sparkle-garnet-january-birthstone<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! With a new year comes a new month, and this month\u2019s beautiful birthstone is GARNET. Typically a red\/brown color, garnet can be found in ANY color except for blue. Personally, one of my favorite garnet hues is a lovely magenta color known as Rhodolite garnet (see picture at the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laynedesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}