{"id":15105,"date":"2022-11-17T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/?p=15105"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:13:25","slug":"earring-post-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/earring-post-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"EARRING POST TOO LONG?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Earring-Posts-Too-Long.gif\" alt=\"Earring Posts Too Long?\" title=\"Earring Posts Too Long?\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15106\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I wear an earring in my <strong>left ear<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve had one there since I was <strong>18<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>\nNormally, it&#8217;s a <strong>diamond stud<\/strong> (<strong>.52, VS1, F, Hearts and Arrows<\/strong>&#8230; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesallen.com\/loose-diamonds\/round-cut\/0.52-carat-f-color-vvs2-clarity-excellent-cut-sku-911525\">similar to this diamond here<\/a>). And trust me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><h2>I LOVE this Diamond!<\/h2>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a top of the line diamond and it kicks ass! <strong>I&#8217;ve never seen another diamond sparkle more<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><h2>It Rocks!<\/h2>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s also set in <strong>platinum<\/strong> (I wanted the best of the best, since I&#8217;ve worked in the industry <strong>for over 28 years<\/strong>). I deserve it! <\/p>\n<p><h2>ANYWAY&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>It had one big problem&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen I&#8217;d go to sleep and lay my head upon the pillow, <strong>the earring post would stab me in the head<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe end of the post <strong>was long<\/strong> and came to a rounded <strong>point <\/strong>and <strong>it didn&#8217;t feel too hot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd I&#8217;m sure that this happens to many, many people. <strong>I can&#8217;t be the only one&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>So the Solution?<\/h2>\n<p>\nTake the earrings into a jewelry store and <strong>have the jeweler shorten the post!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nThey&#8217;ll actually <strong>remove the post<\/strong>, cut out a section of it, then <strong>solder it back<\/strong> to the earring so you&#8217;ll never know there was any work done on it.<\/p>\n<p><h2>See image below&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Shorten-Those-Long-Earring-Posts.jpg\" alt=\"Shorten Those Long Earring Posts\" title=\"Shorten Those Long Earring Posts\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Shorten-Those-Long-Earring-Posts.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Shorten-Those-Long-Earring-Posts-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nNow I can<strong> wear my earring endlessly<\/strong>, and it doesn&#8217;t bother me in the least. I don&#8217;t even know it&#8217;s there!<\/p>\n<p><h2>It&#8217;s Awesome!<\/h2>\n<p>\nBut I do make sure to <strong>clean my diamond at least once a week<\/strong>, just to keep it sparkling like crazy. And believe me, <strong>it does!<\/strong> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/21zRNRH\">So get yourself a jewelry cleaner too!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd, <strong>if you want a diamond just like mine<\/strong>&#8230; (<strong>1\/2 carat an ear<\/strong>, is <strong>1.00 carat<\/strong> total weight)<\/p>\n<p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesallen.com\/matching-pairs\/round-cut\/?CaratFrom=1&#038;CaratTo=15&#038;Color=F,E,D&#038;Clarity=VS1,VVS2,VVS1&#038;Cut=TrueHearts&#038;PriceFrom=&#038;PriceTo=&#038;ViewsOptions=Images&#038;ps=10\">Check out James Allen&#8217;s Diamond Earrings HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nOr <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/21zSM4b\">check out Amazon&#8217;s Diamonds Studs HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Cheers! :)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I wear an earring in my left ear. I&#8217;ve had one there since I was 18. Normally, it&#8217;s a diamond stud (.52, VS1, F, Hearts and Arrows&#8230; similar to this diamond here). And trust me&#8230; <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/earring-post-too-long\/\" title=\"EARRING POST TOO LONG?\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[493,491,467,492],"class_list":["post-15105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jewelry","category-repairs","tag-earring-back","tag-earring-post","tag-earring-repair","tag-post-long"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105"}],"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=15105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}