﻿{"id":44,"date":"2009-02-02T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tucsongemshow.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/02\/02\/opening-day\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T07:22:00","slug":"opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/2009\/02\/02\/opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/SYX95_6t5RI\/AAAAAAAABKA\/2kkty5YX2cw\/s1600-h\/dyer.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tucsongemshow.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/742df_dyer.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I came back to the Riverpark Inn because it is opening day for the Pueblo Gem &amp; Mineral Show!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>When I was here earlier the Courtyard Pavilion wasn&#8217;t open &#8211; I want to tell you about some of the dealers in the main tent!!!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>First and one of the reasons I make it to this show every year is <strong>John Dyer<\/strong>. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>John is an award winning gem carver who has some of the most original and unique cutting methods&#8230;by the way each piece is a signed piece &#8211; his stones bear his initials!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Poor Boys Opals<\/strong> have beautiful Australian Opal and some of the finest Ethiopian Opal I&#8217;ve seen so far . They have also have a great assortment of Christine Roussell&#8217;s award winning opal carvings.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Thomas M. Schneider<\/strong> is in Room 150 shows some of the finest rough and has some lovely Chrome Chalcedony and beautiful Masai Sunstone (it is a soft green with bits of schiller).<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/SYYAznPVvII\/AAAAAAAABKI\/b0OmyF58irk\/s1600-h\/rnbwFreeForm.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tucsongemshow.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/41aa8_rnbwFreeForm.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Table after table of gems from <strong>Vista Gems<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/vistagems.com\/\">http:\/\/vistagems.com\/<\/a> &#8211; they have some of the nicest Rainbow Moonstone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>A fun vendor of rare gems is <strong>Freakingcat<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/freakingcat.com\/\">http:\/\/freakingcat.com\/<\/a> (website coming soon) &#8211; Sphalerite with 3-4 colors in one stone and cut in house (they have a cutting facility in Thailand) &#8211; they feature some very nicely done unique cuts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div><strong>NEXT:<\/strong> I want to talk you about some of the upcoming events&#8230;..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came back to the Riverpark Inn because it is opening day for the Pueblo Gem &amp; Mineral Show! When I was here earlier the Courtyard Pavilion wasn&#8217;t open &#8211; I want to tell you about some of the dealers in the main tent!!! First and one of the reasons I make it to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"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\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}