{"id":89,"date":"2008-01-16T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T01:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/thinking-about-buying-a-diamond-in-a-mcdonalds\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T06:45:46","slug":"thinking-about-buying-a-diamond-in-a-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/thinking-about-buying-a-diamond-in-a-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About Buying A Diamond in a McDonald\u2019s?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure most people would think twice about buying a diamond (or two) from a stranger in a McDonald’s.
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However, in search of a bargain, a couple in the US parted with $7,000 for two stones they thought were diamonds offered by a stranger who approached them at a McDonalds. Seeking a third party opinion, they were told they were fakes.<\/p>\n

So, the lesson for today is: don’t buy diamonds from McDonald’s.<\/p>\n

Source: San Jose Mercury<\/a> (Story no longer available)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure most people would think twice about buying a diamond (or two) from a stranger in a McDonald’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}