{"id":12,"date":"2013-10-08T20:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T02:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pearlsonly.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2013-10-21T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:36:25","slug":"akoya-pearls-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/akoya-pearls-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Akoya Pearls History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natural pearls adorned the wealthy and powerful for not only centuries but thousands of years. Stories date back to the time of Alexander. In addition, the character for &#8220;pearls&#8221; appears for the first time in a Chinese dictionary written about 1000BC.<\/p>\n<p>In more recent times, natural pearls have also played a prominent role. In 1917, the flagship Cartier building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street was purchased for one double strand of natural Akoya and a token amount of $100. This building stands today to as a testament to the value placed upon pearls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural pearls adorned the wealthy and powerful for not only centuries but thousands of years. Stories date back to the time of Alexander. In addition, the character for &#8220;pearls&#8221; appears for the first time in a Chinese dictionary written about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/akoya-pearls-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1520],"tags":[1600,23,21],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pearlsonly","tag-akoya-pearls","tag-chinese-dictionary","tag-natural-pearls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}