{"id":20277,"date":"2013-04-21T17:26:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T21:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=20277"},"modified":"2013-04-21T17:26:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T21:26:54","slug":"week-in-review-glad-this-one-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/week-in-review-glad-this-one-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: Glad This One Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a strange and horrible week. It&#8217;s good to see Boston back in business. If you&#8217;d like to donate some money to help the victims of the marathon bombing, here are two lists (with some overlap):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/norton\/news\/x935170875\/Where-to-donate-to-aid-Boston-Marathon-bombing-victims#axzz2R8NxyOz6\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked Local<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/04\/21\/boston-victims-charity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mashable<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what was on the blog this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/what-wendy-wore-camouflage-and-safari-gear-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">My safari adventures<\/a> and, from later in the day, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/helpers\/\" target=\"_blank\">wise words about terrible news<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/creature-comforts\/\" target=\"_blank\">My photos of African penguins<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/thanks-for-the-emoji-earring-love\/\" target=\"_blank\">People are writing about my emoji earrings<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/women-with-attitude-skylar-grey-and-whoopi-goldberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skylar Grey&#8217;s new song and Whoopi Goldberg&#8217;s IDGAF attitude<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/customer-of-the-day-tracylee-percival-the-nail-ninja\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nail Ninja Tracylee Percival is the Customer of the Day<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was planning to remove a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/store\/categories.php?category=Sale\" target=\"_blank\">jewelry designs from my sale page today<\/a>, but because of the turmoil this week, I wasn&#8217;t promoting that very much, so I&#8217;ll extend the sale one more week. If you want to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Madame-Royale-Necklace-%252d-Silver\" target=\"_blank\">my silver <em>fleur-de-lis<\/em> necklace for $50<\/a>, make your purchase now, because the price will go back up to $200. Another really good deal is my silver-and-blue-topaz Fulvia ring, which is $495 for one more week. After that, it will be back to $1,000.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20279\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Fulvia-Ring-%252d-Silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20279\" alt=\"Fulvia_Blue_Silver_Zoom__40560_std\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Fulvia_Blue_Silver_Zoom__40560_std.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Fulvia_Blue_Silver_Zoom__40560_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Fulvia_Blue_Silver_Zoom__40560_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Fulvia_Blue_Silver_Zoom__40560_std-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fulvia ring. Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I only made two Fulvia rings in blue topaz, and one is sold. I won&#8217;t be making any more, so this is your last chance to get this style.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a picture I took of a hippo doing hippo things in the water, because &#8230; why not?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20280\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hiphipresize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20280\" class=\" wp-image-20280 \" alt=\"hiphipresize\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hiphipresize.jpg\" width=\"494\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hiphipresize.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hiphipresize-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Wendy Brandes. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a strange and horrible week. It&#8217;s good to see Boston back in business. If you&#8217;d like to donate some money to help the victims of the marathon bombing, here are two lists (with some overlap): Wicked Local Mashable Here&#8217;s what was on the blog this week: Monday: My safari adventures and, from later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/week-in-review-glad-this-one-is-over\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20279,"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":[140,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-animals","category-week-in-review","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277","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=20277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20283,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277\/revisions\/20283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}