{"id":36,"date":"2008-12-29T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T23:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegemdr.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-12-29T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T23:20:40","slug":"twas-the-night-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/2008\/12\/29\/twas-the-night-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Twas the night before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a B.C. Nephrite jade ring that I cut from a block of &#8216;Cassia chromite&#8217; to fit the 14k white gold mount supplied by my customer.<\/p>\n<p>Usually if I am called upon to work on Christmas Eve it&#8217;s because some very sad jeweller is in deep trouble from a last minute woops. The only reason I&#8217;m there is just in case such an emergency occurs and I have saved a couple of very grateful butts over the years.<\/p>\n<p>In this case it wasn&#8217;t a last minute present but it was a time sensitive job. My plans for a relaxing day playing were dashed. Although not a particularly difficult job it was quite time consuming as the  fit needed to be exact and of course the gold work wasn&#8217;t. Luckily Cassia Jade is B.C.&#8217;s finest jade to work with, it takes an agate like polish and rarely splinters like the other nephrites so I did manage to deliver the piece that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thegemdoctor.com\/orchid\/DSCN0904.JPG\" alt=\"jade ring apart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thegemdoctor.com\/orchid\/DSCN0900.JPG\" alt=\"jade ring together\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a B.C. Nephrite jade ring that I cut from a block of &#8216;Cassia chromite&#8217; to fit the 14k white gold mount supplied by my customer. Usually if I am called upon to work on Christmas Eve it&#8217;s because some very sad jeweller is in deep trouble from a last minute woops. The only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"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\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/thegemdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}