{"id":6781,"date":"2012-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/the-gogibus-pearl\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:00:00","slug":"the-gogibus-pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/the-gogibus-pearl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gogibus pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature is capable of donating <strong>magnificent creations<\/strong> to human beings, natural masterpieces like pearls born from a simple mussel: the <strong>Gogibus pearl<\/strong> is one of this extraordinary specimen.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/The-Gogibus-pearl-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\"><\/p>\n<p>Weighting <strong>126 carats<\/strong>, this <strong>pear-shaped<\/strong> pearl belonged to a merchant, <strong>Francois Gogibus<\/strong> native of Calais, which brought the from India to Europe in <strong>1620<\/strong>; this merchant sold the pearl to <strong>Philip IV of Spain<\/strong>, that made it set as a button for the royal cape.<\/p>\n<p>This pearl had been <strong>a big gamble<\/strong> for Gogibus, who bet everything he had on this magnificent and natural beauty: many merchants preferred to <strong>invest in dribs and drabs<\/strong> in this field, because the <strong>profit wasn&#8217;t always certain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But Gogibus was able to <strong>sell his product very well<\/strong>, answering really wisely to Philip&#8217;s question about why he invested so much on a sigle pearl, saying that &#8220;he knew there was a king of Spain willing to by it from me&#8221;, seeing <strong>his faith rewarded<\/strong> by the king with the purchase of the pearl, which took his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature is capable of donating magnificent creations to human beings, natural masterpieces like pearls born from a simple mussel: the Gogibus pearl is one of this extraordinary specimen. Weighting 126 carats, this pear-shaped pearl belonged to a merchant, Francois Gogibus native of Calais, which brought the from India to Europe in 1620; this merchant sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pearls-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}