{"id":568,"date":"2014-08-18T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2014-08-18T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:36:00","slug":"pearls-from-maui-divers-jewelry-honolulu-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/18\/pearls-from-maui-divers-jewelry-honolulu-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls from Maui Divers Jewelry, Honolulu, Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Hawaii_MauiDivers1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Hawaii_MauiDivers1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Hawaii_MauiDivers2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Hawaii_MauiDivers2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving at the Maui Divers Jewelry, Honolulu, Hawaii, a Hawaiian lady gave us the guided tour starting with a film presentation about the black coral found in the waters around the Islands. Then, there was a live demo showing the step by step how they created jewelry from the local raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we went to check the selection and creation process of pearls. Jerry helped Nancy to pick up a big, ugly oyster which hopefully contained a pearl. The sales lady said that we did not have to pay if there was no pearl found inside of oyster. Good deal. When the shell was opened, we saw a good size light yellow pearl inside. Wow, it was amazing. The actual creation is the seeding of the oyster so that its potential of developing a pearl is high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon arriving at the Maui Divers Jewelry, Honolulu, Hawaii, a Hawaiian lady gave us the guided tour starting with a film presentation about the black coral found in the waters around the Islands. Then, there was a live demo showing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/18\/pearls-from-maui-divers-jewelry-honolulu-hawaii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}