{"id":1458,"date":"2010-06-24T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midastouch.goldgenie.com\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2010-06-24T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T08:00:16","slug":"elephant-parade-the-pearly-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/elephant-parade-the-pearly-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Parade &amp; the Pearly Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0096.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1457\" title=\"Snappylifestyle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0096-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0097.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1459\" title=\"Snappylifestyle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0097-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1460\" title=\"Snappylifestyle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0100-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0094.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1461\" title=\"Snappylifestyle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0094-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1462\" title=\"Snappylifestyle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0101-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1463\" title=\"Snappylifestyle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0089-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>Photography by <a href=\"http:\/\/snappylifestyle.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snappylifestyle<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldlandtrust.org\/events\/elephant-parade\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Land Trust (WLT)<\/a> elephant  has been designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shojewellery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SHO Fine Jewellery<\/a> in  partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarovski.com\/Web_GB\/en\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swarovski<\/a> to  produce what is expected to be one of the most glamorous and eye catching elephants of <strong> <\/strong>the parade. \u00a0Named the Pearly Prince, the elephant features a different design on each side.\u00a0 One half is covered in Swarovski crystal pearls with  the other side showing a pearl and  crystal encrusted skeleton,  symbolising what may be the fate of the Asian  elephants if action is  not taken to protect their threatened habitats.\u00a0 It is the only elephant in the parade with tusks and features 11,000  Swarovski pearls and 13,000 crystals and took 480  hours to create.\u00a0 Wow, talk about bespoke with luxury for a wonderful cause.\u00a0 You can see this magnificent elephant at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coutts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coutts &amp; Co.<\/a> Watch the making of the Pearly Prince here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yaJ0mQ05zLA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yaJ0mQ05zLA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography by Snappylifestyle The World Land Trust (WLT) elephant has been designed by SHO Fine Jewellery in partnership with Swarovski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,14,16,22],"tags":[352,460,1241,1402,1431,1510,1676,1680],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bespoke","category-collaborations","category-cool-stuff","category-events","category-giving-back","tag-coutts-co","tag-elephant-parade","tag-pearly-prince","tag-sho-fine-jewellery","tag-snappylifestyle","tag-swarovski-pearls","tag-wlt","tag-world-land-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}