{"id":18640,"date":"2013-01-16T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=18640"},"modified":"2013-01-16T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:37:53","slug":"appreciate-a-dragon-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/appreciate-a-dragon-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Appreciate a Dragon Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gorgeous Brittany Siminitz of jewelry-industry trade publication JCK <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/blogs\/on-your-market\/2013\/01\/04\/januarys-small-celebrations-and-jewels-to-wear-them\" target=\"_blank\">tells me that today is &#8220;Appreciate a Dragon&#8221; day<\/a>. How could I not know of such an important occasion?! I need to celebrate by wearing my Empress Wu dragon ring &#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18643\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/jewel-of-the-month-empress-wu-dragon-ring\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18643\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18643\" alt=\"Empress-Wu-Dragon_M__96883_std\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Empress-Wu-Dragon_M__96883_std.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Empress-Wu-Dragon_M__96883_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Empress-Wu-Dragon_M__96883_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Empress-Wu-Dragon_M__96883_std-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to read all about it!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; and my Empress Wu dragon earrings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18644\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/jewel-of-the-month-empress-wu-dragon-earrings\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18644\" class=\" wp-image-18644 \" alt=\"dragonearringslowres2-768x1024\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dragonearringslowres2-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dragonearringslowres2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dragonearringslowres2-768x1024-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see these as a work-in-progress.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I do a lot of animal-themed jewelry. If you missed reading about my latest animal piece &#8212; the Frog and Prince ring &#8212; yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/jewel-of-the-month-frog-and-prince-maneater-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\">check it out now<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gorgeous Brittany Siminitz of jewelry-industry trade publication JCK tells me that today is &#8220;Appreciate a Dragon&#8221; day. How could I not know of such an important occasion?! I need to celebrate by wearing my Empress Wu dragon ring &#8230; &#8230; and my Empress Wu dragon earrings. I do a lot of animal-themed jewelry. If&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/appreciate-a-dragon-day\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18643,"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":[140,60,43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-animals","8":"category-earrings","9":"category-my-designs","10":"category-rings","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18640","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=18640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18649,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18640\/revisions\/18649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}