{"id":13120,"date":"2015-12-13T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:31:13","slug":"the-12-days-of-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/the-12-days-of-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"THE 12 DAYS OF DIAMONDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-12-Days-Of-Diamonds.gif\" alt=\"The 12 Days Of Diamonds\" title=\"The 12 Days Of Diamonds\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13121\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We all know <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1RIqLo2\">The 12 Days of Christmas<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens, Two Turtle Doves<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd <strong>YES<\/strong>, we&#8217;ve all Heard of other Famous Renditions like, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2c16BHC\">Bob and Doug&#8217;s 12 Days of Christmas<\/a> (and a Beer), <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1RIsFFi\">Twisted Sister&#8217;s 12 Days<\/a>, and of Course, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2c17xvA\">John Denver and the Muppets<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\n(Miss Piggy and her &#8220;<strong>FIVEEEEEEE Golden Rings!<\/strong>&#8220;)<\/p>\n<p>\nBut do you know what the &#8220;<strong>REAL<\/strong>&#8221; 12 Days of Christmas Actually Are?<\/p>\n<p><h2>I Didn&#8217;t!<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>I looked it up<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><h2>I was Surprised!<\/h2>\n<p>\nI had always thought that the 12 Days of Christmas were the <strong>12 Days BEFORE Christmas<\/strong> (starting Today, on the <strong>13th<\/strong>). Wait, was it 12 Days <strong>BEFORE <\/strong>Christmas, or was the <strong>12th Day Christmas???<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>See, always Confusing!<\/h2>\n<p>\nAnd even more Confusing when you find out that <strong>Christmas is actually the FIRST Day of Christmas!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>WHAT?<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>Yes<\/strong>, the 12 Days of Christmas are the 12 Days <strong>starting with Christmas<\/strong> and going all the way through to <strong>January 5th <\/strong>(that&#8217;s the 12th Day of Christmas).<\/p>\n<p><h2>WEIRD, EH?<\/h2>\n<p>\nNow you could go out and Buy all those Crazy Gifts (<strong>Really Meant to Represent Jesus<\/strong>), but Good Luck on the <strong>8 Maids a Milking<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>NOPE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>INSTEAD&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>I have a Better Idea!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>The 12 Days of Diamonds!<\/h2>\n<p>\nBuy her a Different Diamond Piece for <strong>Every 12 Days of Christmas<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nNow they don&#8217;t have to be <strong>Big<\/strong>, or <strong>Expensive<\/strong>, but something <strong>Dazzling and Dainty<\/strong>, and of course, <strong>Beautiful<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Diamonds can be the <strong>12 Days of Diamonds<\/strong>, and it&#8217;s Much Better than getting her <strong>9 Geese a Laying<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Right? ;)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>We all know The 12 Days of Christmas&#8230; Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens, Two Turtle Doves&#8230; And YES, we&#8217;ve all Heard of other Famous Renditions like, Bob and Doug&#8217;s 12 Days of Christmas (and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/the-12-days-of-diamonds\/\" title=\"THE 12 DAYS OF DIAMONDS\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamonds","category-jewelry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}