{"id":38370,"date":"2017-12-14T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=38370"},"modified":"2017-12-14T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:27:49","slug":"jewel-of-the-month-part-ii-abigails-engagement-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/jewel-of-the-month-part-ii-abigails-engagement-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewel of the Month, Part II: Abigail’s Engagement Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day, I get three or four emails in which someone claims to be a “big fan” of my blog and offers me $50 to publish a guest post (which often includes the dreaded “infographic”). Of course, anyone who truly is a big fan of this blog might have noticed that I haven’t had a sponsored post in my entire 10 years of blogging. But hope springs eternal, and spammers gotta spam in case I finally break down.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now the writers of spammy emails are going to have new ammunition against me, because Part II of December 2017’s Jewel of the Month post<\/a> has been guest-written by the recently engaged Abigail and I didn’t even ask her for the $50! Dang! This guest post came about because I like to interview my engagement-ring customers about everything from how they met, how they designed their rings, and how the proposal went. Then I write them up. Here are a few of the previous ones.<\/em><\/p>\n