{"id":30785,"date":"2022-05-20T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/diamonds-are-not-very-rare#id31851"},"modified":"2022-05-20T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:48:00","slug":"rosa-lyster-the-history-of-south-african-mines-shows-that-diamonds-are-not-very-rare-but-they-are-prized-from-a-unique-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/rosa-lyster-the-history-of-south-african-mines-shows-that-diamonds-are-not-very-rare-but-they-are-prized-from-a-unique-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosa Lyster: The history of South African mines shows that diamonds are not very rare, but they are prized from a unique misery."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>People obsess over diamonds precisely because of the human cost involved. We love a diamond story that emphasises the contrast between the starry white at the top of the queen&rsquo;s sceptre and the pitch-black hell from which it was pulled.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v44\/n10\/rosa-lyster\/not-particularly-rare\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The London Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/diamonds-are-not-very-rare\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        People obsess over diamonds precisely because of the human cost involved. We love a diamond story that emphasises the contrast between the starry white at the top of the queen&rsquo;s sceptre and the pitch-black hell from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30786,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30785\/revisions\/30786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}