{"id":4009,"date":"2008-12-12T16:07:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T00:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2009-02-19T15:11:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T23:11:54","slug":"more-than-diamonds-getting-cut-at-gia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4009","title":{"rendered":"More Than Diamonds Getting Cut At GIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gia-logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gia-logo.jpg','popup','width=360,height=124,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gia-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"68\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Gia Logo\" \/><\/a><em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> blingiest business, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gemological Institute of America<\/a><\/strong>, announced today that it is cutting 11 percent of his its staff and giving its executive a wonderful Christmas bonus: a 10 percent reduction in pay.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A GIA spokeswoman confirmed the cuts to <strong>National Jeweler<\/strong> on Friday, saying that the job cuts were a &#8220;last resort&#8221; move for the institute, spurred by trying economic times. . . . &#8220;Obviously, we&#8217;re in a deep recession, and we&#8217;re not isolated from the rest of the gem and jewelry industry,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Anything that happens to them, happens to us &#8230;. There are fewer stones going into our laboratories for servicing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know the economy is in trouble with the people who cut the diamonds are feeling the hurt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljewelernetwork.com\/njn\/content_display\/diamonds\/grading\/e3ie36ce5eb50d8af308543da4e1b80a082\" target=\"_blank\">National Jeweler Network<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s blingiest business, the Gemological Institute of America, announced today that it is cutting 11 percent of his its staff and giving its executive a wonderful Christmas bonus: a 10 percent reduction in pay. A GIA spokeswoman confirmed the cuts to National Jeweler on Friday, saying that the job cuts were a &#8220;last resort&#8221; move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}