{"id":29389,"date":"2015-05-26T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T17:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=29389"},"modified":"2015-05-27T01:39:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T05:39:15","slug":"my-taxi-ring-is-a-jck-editors-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/my-taxi-ring-is-a-jck-editors-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"My Taxi Ring is a JCK Editors&#8217; Pick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love lists titled &#8220;The Best of the Best,&#8221; because it makes me think of the overeager West Point graduate in <em>Men in Black<\/em> who barks &#8220;Because we&#8217;re the best of the best of the best &#8230; SIR!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29390\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OXRi28W-ENY\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29390\" class=\"wp-image-29390 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/best-of-the-best.jpg\" alt=\"best of the best\" width=\"498\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/best-of-the-best.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/best-of-the-best-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the screenshot to watch the clip.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love &#8220;Best of the Best&#8221; lists even more when I&#8217;m part of them! I had just sighed, &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m not in this,&#8221; over this JCK publication listing the winners and finalists of its 2015 Jewelers&#8217; Choice Awards &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29391\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/besties.jpg\" alt=\"besties\" width=\"498\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/besties.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/besties-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/besties-300x360.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and then I flipped a page and found myself in the &#8220;JCA 5 Faves, 2015 Editors&#8217; Picks.&#8221; The magazine said, &#8220;For the second year in a row, we asked the JCK editorial team to cast their (hypothetical) votes in the Jewelers&#8217; Choice Awards. See which pieces &#8212; among all the entries &#8212; they chose as their favorites and why they love them.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you SO MUCH, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jckmarketplace\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany Siminitz<\/a>, JCK Marketplace Manager, for choosing my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/jewel-of-the-month-nyc-taxi-and-passenger-maneater-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taxi and Passenger Maneater ring<\/a>, which I entered in the category of Colored Diamond Jewelry Over $10,000.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29393\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jck21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29393\" class=\"wp-image-29393\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jck21.jpg\" alt=\"jck2\" width=\"498\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jck21.jpg 707w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jck21-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jck21-581x1024.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jck21-300x529.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing Brittany and the rest of my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/what-wendy-wore-platinum-and-bricks-at-jck-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Gems<\/a> gang at the JCK jewelry trade show in Las Vegas this week. I&#8217;m not exhibiting, because I have a bad habit of spending my entire potential show budget on things like my brand-new Dragon and Knight Maneater ring (you&#8217;ll be seeing that one soon and, yes, it was worth it). But I love to go and hang out with my jewelry-biz friends. If you&#8217;re there and see me wandering by, say hello! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love lists titled &#8220;The Best of the Best,&#8221; because it makes me think of the overeager West Point graduate in Men in Black who barks &#8220;Because we&#8217;re the best of the best of the best &#8230; SIR!&#8221; I love &#8220;Best of the Best&#8221; lists even more when I&#8217;m part of them! I had just&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/my-taxi-ring-is-a-jck-editors-pick\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29390,"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":[659,43,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maneater","category-my-designs","category-press","category-rings","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389","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=29389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29395,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389\/revisions\/29395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}