{"id":2997,"date":"2009-07-15T17:28:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T23:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2009-07-15T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T23:28:32","slug":"ching-bling-by-popular-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2997","title":{"rendered":"Ching Bling &#8211; By Popular Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/3722491914\/\"  title=\"newring by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2653\/3722491914_16bdded299_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" alt=\"newring\" \/><\/a>Okay, so not really by popular demand. Just by Cannady Girl.  =P<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=632#more-632\" >About three years ago I had to get an upgrade on my bridal set because my fingers got too fat<\/a>.  Well, we could have gotten my rings sized but it would have cost $250 to size both the engagement and wedding bands and solder them together.  Supposedly because when they size it up they have to add more Platinum.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2009.  My fingers have gotten fatter still. They don&#8217;t carry my bridal set anymore so I had to go with a different style.  Now I&#8217;m using this three-stone ring as my wedding band.<\/p>\n<p>I really hope I don&#8217;t get any fatter because I&#8217;m tired of upgrading.  I&#8217;m beginning to think that the whole upgrading thing was created by jewelry stores to con more money out of you. Like jewelry isn&#8217;t marked up enough already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so not really by popular demand. Just by Cannady Girl. =P About three years ago I had to get an upgrade on my bridal set because my fingers got too fat. Well, we could have gotten my rings sized but it would have cost $250 to size both the engagement and wedding bands and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,23],"tags":[588,586,587],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}