{"id":13697,"date":"2011-12-15T00:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T05:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=13697"},"modified":"2011-12-15T00:51:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T05:51:40","slug":"crown-jewels-elizabeth-taylor-jewels-my-jewels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/crown-jewels-elizabeth-taylor-jewels-my-jewels\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Jewels, Elizabeth Taylor Jewels, My Jewels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crown jewels? How could I not love this commercial?<\/p>\n<p><center><embed flashVars=\"playerVars=autoPlay=no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/fplayer\/7223839\/android_smartphone_is_straight_talks_crown_jewel.swf\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" name=\"Metacafe_7223839\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/7223839\/android_smartphone_is_straight_talks_crown_jewel\/\">Android Smartphone is Straight Talk&#8217;s Crown Jewel<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/\">Watch more funny videos here<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The crown jewels would probably be a bargain compared to Elizabeth Taylor&#8217;s jewels, which brought in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/people\/story\/2011-12-14\/elizabeth-taylor-auction-sets-record\/51903812\/1\" target=\"_blank\">a record-setting $115 million at auction<\/a>. (When Taylor died in March, I wrote about her jewelry on the Huffington Post. You can revisit that story by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/wendy-brandes\/elizabeth-taylor-obituary_b_839847.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) Most of the jewelery sold for well above the estimates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/package\/article\/0,,20261725_20553524,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The heart-shaped Taj Mahal Diamond<\/a>, for instance, had a pre-auction estimate of $300,000 to $500,000, but sold for $8.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>One of y&#8217;all better get my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Chicken-in-Egg-Necklace\" target=\"_blank\">Chicken-in-Egg locket<\/a> for $16,000 while you can. After an insanely glamorous actress buys it, it&#8217;s going to be worth millions! Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown jewels? How could I not love this commercial? Android Smartphone is Straight Talk&#8217;s Crown Jewel &#8211; Watch more funny videos here The crown jewels would probably be a bargain compared to Elizabeth Taylor&#8217;s jewels, which brought in a record-setting $115 million at auction. (When Taylor died in March, I wrote about her jewelry on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/crown-jewels-elizabeth-taylor-jewels-my-jewels\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[139,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-auctions","7":"category-celebrities","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13749,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions\/13749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}