{"id":13811,"date":"2016-02-13T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/?p=13811"},"modified":"2016-02-10T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:19:12","slug":"the-second-largest-diamond-ever-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/the-second-largest-diamond-ever-found\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SECOND LARGEST DIAMOND EVER FOUND!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lesedi-La-Rona-The-Second-Largest-Diamond-Ever-Found.gif\" alt=\"Lesedi La Rona The Second Largest Diamond Ever Found in the World\" title=\"Lesedi La Rona The Second Largest Diamond Ever Found in the World\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13812\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>YEP! THAT&#8217;S BIG!<\/h2>\n<p>\nWhat an <strong>Insane Find<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nLast November, in Africa, the <strong>Second Largest Diamond in the WORLD<\/strong> was unearthed. <\/p>\n<p>\nWeighing in at an incredible <strong>1,111 Carats<\/strong>, this Diamond is <strong>HUGE<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>\nIn fact, the only other Diamond that&#8217;s ever been discovered that&#8217;s bigger, is the &#8220;<strong>Cullinan Diamond<\/strong>&#8220;, which weighed a Staggering <strong>3,106.75 Carats!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nStill, this Smaller Stone (ha, that&#8217;s <strong>funny<\/strong>), is said to be valued at approximately <strong>66 Million Dollars!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>WOW!<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe Canadian Company that owns the stone ran a Competition to &#8220;<strong>Name the Diamond<\/strong>&#8220;! And after receiving a whopping <strong>11,000 entries<\/strong>, they choose this name:<\/p>\n<p><h2>Lesedi La Rona<\/h2>\n<p>\nWhich translates (in Setswana &#8211; the language of <strong>Botswana<\/strong>) &#8220;<strong>Our Light<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>And it truly is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>Take a Peek at this Incredible Diamond:<\/h2>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lesedi-La-Rona-The-Second-Largest-Diamond-Ever-Found-In-The-World.jpg\" alt=\"Lesedi La Rona The Second Largest iamond Ever Found In The World\" title=\"Lesedi La Rona The Second Largest iamond Ever Found In The World\" width=\"589\" height=\"570\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lesedi-La-Rona-The-Second-Largest-Diamond-Ever-Found-In-The-World.jpg 589w, https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lesedi-La-Rona-The-Second-Largest-Diamond-Ever-Found-In-The-World-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Gorgeous!<\/h2>\n<p>\nWouldn&#8217;t you <strong>LOVE a Chip off the ole Block?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>I would!<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>Cheers! :)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>YEP! THAT&#8217;S BIG! What an Insane Find&#8230; Last November, in Africa, the Second Largest Diamond in the WORLD was unearthed. Weighing in at an incredible 1,111 Carats, this Diamond is HUGE! In fact, the only <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/the-second-largest-diamond-ever-found\/\" title=\"THE SECOND LARGEST DIAMOND EVER FOUND!\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carat-weight","category-diamonds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811"}],"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=13811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}