{"id":251,"date":"2014-06-27T05:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T05:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2014-06-27T05:33:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T05:33:36","slug":"alert-large-emerald-and-ruby-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Alert: large emerald and ruby scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember: if it seems too good to be true, it is. Be advised that there appears to be a rash of gem scams right now involving LARGE &#8220;door-stop&#8221; sized emeralds and rubies, not unlike the door-stop &#8220;emerald&#8221; story that I posted back in August of 2012. (<a href=\"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/?p=59\" target=\"_blank\">See https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/?p=59<\/a> ). BEFORE you get involved in any &#8220;gem investment,&#8221; consult with an INDEPENDENT professional appraiser. And if you&#8217;re unclear as to why &#8220;independent&#8221; is important, read the link on the bar at the top of this page. Caveat emptor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember: if it seems too good to be true, it is. Be advised that there appears to be a rash of gem scams right now involving LARGE &#8220;door-stop&#8221; sized emeralds and rubies, not unlike the door-stop &#8220;emerald&#8221; story that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/?p=251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}