{"id":11846,"date":"2009-02-03T00:07:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T08:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/02\/03\/11846.html"},"modified":"2009-02-03T00:07:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T08:07:37","slug":"lab-grown-diamonds-in-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/02\/03\/lab-grown-diamonds-in-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown diamonds in rings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in 2003, I posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/09\/22\/1466.html\">entry<\/a> pointing to a <cite>Wired<\/cite> article about synthetic diamonds. (I also linked in passing to the seminal 1982 <cite>Atlantic<\/cite> expos&eacute; of De Beers and the diamond industry, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/82feb\/8202diamond1.htm\">Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?<\/a>\")<\/p>\n<p>Well, De Beers is still going strong, alas, but at least it's now possible to get lab-grown diamonds that look good enough (to the untrained eye, anyway) for use in jewelry. An acquaintance of mine has posted the story of how he and his then-fianc&eacute;e (now wife) put together an \"<a href=\"http:\/\/syntheticdiamondfan.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/engagement-ring-with-only-lab-created.html\">Engagement Ring With Only Lab-Created Diamonds<\/a>,\" complete with links, a bunch of photos, and even a brief video showing the ring sparkling in the sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Well worth reading if you have any interest in using lab diamonds for your next piece of diamond jewelry. Sounds like it was a pleasant experience all around, and avoided many of the political issues associated with ground-grown diamonds.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2003, I posted an entry pointing to a Wired article about synthetic diamonds. (I also linked in passing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}