{"id":18,"date":"2026-08-22T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/the-rings-made-twice\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:22:46","slug":"the-rings-made-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/the-rings-made-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"The rings, made twice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had our rings made by a goldsmith in District 5 who has worked from the same shop for forty years. Plain gold bands, a little wider than we expected, with the date engraved inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Saigon, he said, you measure in the heat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were made twice. Khoa&#039;s fingers were measured on a cold, air-conditioned afternoon in April, and by June his ring would not go past the knuckle. The goldsmith was not surprised at all: in Saigon, he said, you measure in the heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are now in a drawer, in a box, inside another box, where Mai checks on them far more often than she admits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A goldsmith in District 5, a measurement taken in the wrong season, and a second fitting that we will laugh about one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,13],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-story","tag-planning","tag-rings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/sunshine-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}