{"id":33054,"date":"2016-06-12T21:52:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T01:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=33054"},"modified":"2016-06-27T22:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T02:18:53","slug":"the-weeks-in-review-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-weeks-in-review-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeks in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s what was on the blog in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday, May 30: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/on-my-way-to-virtual-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\">I was on my way to the big jewelry trade shows in Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, May 31: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/what-wendy-wore-not-so-crisp-white-shirt\/\" target=\"_blank\">I still hate a &#8220;crisp white shirt.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, June 1: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-south-sea-pearl-to-welcome-june\/\" target=\"_blank\">June has several birthstones, but my favorite is the pearl<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, June 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/throwback-thursday-jck-las-vegas-memories\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remembering past JCK Las Vegas adventures<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, June 4: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-emoji-peeps-are-catching-up-to-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">New emojis are coming, but my emoji-inspired jewelry came first<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Monday, June 6: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/ogling-opals\/\" target=\"_blank\">If I win the lottery, I&#8217;m getting these opals<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, June 9: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/throwback-thursday-ossie-clarks-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Designer Ossie Clark would have been 74 on this day<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Friday, June 10: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/in-the-news-today-muhammad-ali-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">Muhammad Ali&#8217;s funeral was worthy of The Greatest<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Friday, I promised some more Ali links.\u00a0 In 1964, when he was still called Cassius Clay, Ali defeated World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston and gave a victory speech for the ages, including: &#8220;I&#8217;m king of the world! I&#8217;m pretty! I&#8217;m a bad man! I shook up the world! I shook up the world! I shook up the world!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BY6_3Y7OOo8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>In 1974, he bragged, &#8220;I&#8217;m so mean, I make medicine sick!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1LSewbS5eQI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>And here is a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortlist.com\/entertainment\/sport\/70-moments-that-made-ali-great\" target=\"_blank\">70 great Ali moments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I meant to do more Ali research, but the horrible shooting of 50 people at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlanda, Fla., has me distracted. So I&#8217;ll just end with a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/alphahistory.com\/vietnamwar\/muhammad-ali-refuses-to-fight-1967\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ali&#8217;s famous refusal to fight in Vietnam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starcelebritydresses.com\/celebrity-occasion-dresses\/giuliana-rancic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33056 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LoveisLove.jpg\" alt=\"giuliana rancic dress\" width=\"498\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LoveisLove.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LoveisLove-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s what was on the blog in the past two weeks. Monday, May 30: I was on my way to the big jewelry trade shows in Las Vegas. Tuesday, May 31: I still hate a &#8220;crisp white shirt.&#8221; Wednesday, June 1: June has several birthstones, but my favorite is the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-weeks-in-review-12\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33056,"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":[598],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-week-in-review","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33054","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=33054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33247,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33054\/revisions\/33247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}