{"id":39898,"date":"2018-04-11T17:11:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=39898"},"modified":"2018-04-11T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:11:39","slug":"wednesdays-video-wendy-brandes-platinum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/wednesdays-video-wendy-brandes-platinum\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday&#8217;s Video: Wendy Brandes Platinum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/wednesdays-video-my-new-collections\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last week<\/a>, I introduced the first two videos in a series about my new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/Store\/Gold.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Brandes Gold<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/Store\/Platinum.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Brandes Platinum<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/Store\/Silver.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Brandes Silver<\/a> collections. I&#8217;m adding to those with this week&#8217;s featured YouTube video about my platinum collection.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSg5vQBkbro\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you prefer watching\/hearing me talk about platinum while I&#8217;m outside, you can check out this video I did for the Platinum Guild trade association in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/platinumjewelry.com\/platinum-pulse\/designers\/behind-scenes-wendy-brandes\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>In other platinum news, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/platinum-clinging-to-its-status-as-a-top-precious-metal-faces-a-crisis-1516043471\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal ran a story by Alexander Wexler<\/a> about platinum in January that I found very interesting. It said that with platinum prices down and fears about a loss of demand for industrial usage, platinum producers are working to create demand for platinum as a luxury metal in India and other countries that have traditionally favored gold jewelry. That&#8217;s right, I said &#8220;industrial usage.&#8221; The Journal article explains that platinum turns up where you might not expect it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>&#8220;The metal&#8217;s biggest use is in catalytic converters, which scrub diesel and gas emissions from internal-combustion engines.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Electric cars don&#8217;t need catalytic converters &#8230; and that&#8217;s how the growing popularity of electric cars leads to more platinum jewelry in India, kids!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed last week&#8217;s introduction to my new collections, you can catch up now.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WFmTyKzPwEc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The video about Wendy Brandes Gold is here.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G9pm2CyEVDY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don&#8217;t miss next week&#8217;s video about Wendy Brandes Silver.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCffTpc4r3ru3j5T6MwxsMVQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I introduced the first two videos in a series about my new Wendy Brandes Gold, Wendy Brandes Platinum, and Wendy Brandes Silver collections. I&#8217;m adding to those with this week&#8217;s featured YouTube video about my platinum collection. If you prefer watching\/hearing me talk about platinum while I&#8217;m outside, you can check out this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/wednesdays-video-wendy-brandes-platinum\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[669,25,112,1291],"tags":[1044,1230],"class_list":{"0":"post-39898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-about-wendy","7":"category-business","8":"category-platinum","9":"category-video-about-wendy","10":"tag-platinum-jewelry","11":"tag-youtube","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898","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=39898"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39903,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898\/revisions\/39903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}