{"id":88,"count":1,"description":"<strong>Did You Know?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nOnce upon a time, pirates were convinced that wearing earrings would improve or even cure bad eyesight. It was also thought that sailors wore earrings to save them from drowning, while others believed should a sailor drown and be washed ashore on another land, his gold earrings would be used by the discoverer as payment for his proper burial.\r\n\r\n<strong>August Birthstones<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Peridot and Sardonyx.<\/strong> Courage and happiness are the attributes thought to be bestowed upon those of August birth by these gemstones. Beautiful, transparent, olive-green peridot has been a popular gem of women for over 3,000 years, while the opaque, reddish-brown sardonyx has long been a favorite for men\u2019s signet rings.","link":"https:\/\/www.houstonjewelry.com\/blog\/tag\/sardonyx\/","name":"Sardonyx","slug":"sardonyx","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.houstonjewelry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.houstonjewelry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.houstonjewelry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.houstonjewelry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}