{"id":687,"date":"2008-03-23T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/23\/14k-fortune-cookie-jewelry-now-half-off\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T08:08:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:08:29","slug":"14k-fortune-cookie-jewelry-now-half-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/23\/14k-fortune-cookie-jewelry-now-half-off\/","title":{"rendered":"14k Fortune Cookie Jewelry (why?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fortunecookienecklace.jpg\" alt=\"fortune cookie gold necklace jewelry\" style=\"padding: 5px\" align=\"left\" height=\"436\" width=\"240\" \/>Sent to me by a coworker. A<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopbop.com\/fortune-cookie-necklace-rachel-leigh\/vp\/v=1\/845524441809587.htm?folderID=2534374302025763&amp;fm=sale\"> Rachel Leigh fortune cookie necklace<\/a>, which is made of 14k gold, so this is not the cheap costume stuff. (Who is Rachel Leigh, I don&#8217;t know, but it&#8217;s these kinds of Web sites that make me feel like I should).<\/p>\n<p>Just goes to prove how iconic fortune cookies are in the United States. I can say with some authority that they are not selling 14k gold fortune cookie jewelry in China or Japan.<\/p>\n<p>It actually comes with instructions: &#8220;Remove the fortune ribbon, tie it near the clasp of the necklace, and make a wish. When the ribbon falls off, your wish will come true.&#8221; This is a bit of an odd tradition, nothing to do with fortune cookies (American or Japanese) at all, just this general notion of luck\/fortune\/three wishes from a genie in a bottle. This is actually a very bad set-up as it seems to set up a perverse incentive for the owner to accidentally tug\/pull off the ribbon doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to me by a coworker. A Rachel Leigh fortune cookie necklace, which is made of 14k gold, so this is not the cheap costume stuff. (Who is Rachel Leigh, I don&#8217;t know, but it&#8217;s these kinds of Web sites that make me feel like I should). Just goes to prove how iconic fortune cookies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortune-cookies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-b5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}