{"id":1841,"date":"2009-07-25T22:01:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T05:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/low-rent-mr-c\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T05:03:25","slug":"low-rent-mr-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/25\/low-rent-mr-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-rent, Mr. C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/news#\/news\/jeweler-plans-to-sell-diamonds-from-the-1003997321.story\" target=\"_blank\">from Billboard.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Jeweler Plans To Sell Diamonds From The King of Pop&#8217;s Locks<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #666666\">by Alex Palmer, N.Y.\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0\u00a0July 24, 2009 3:56 EDT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #666666\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/stylus\/100232-michael_jackson2_617_409.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The charred locks of hair from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/michael-jackson\/4902\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson<\/a>&#8216;s disastrous Pepsi commercial shoot are being turned into diamonds. Chicago-based jeweler LifeGem, which specializes in creating high-quality diamonds from individual hair samples, has announced plans to release a limited collection made from the King of Pop&#8217;s hair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our plan is to give people an opportunity to own a diamond made from Michael Jackson&#8217;s DNA,&#8221; said Dean VandenBiesen, founder of LifeGem, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The hair was first obtained by executive producer Ralph Cohen during the now-infamous 1984 Pepsi shoot for Pepsi when Jackson&#8217;s hair caught on fire. After helping extinguish Jackson&#8217;s hair with his Armani jacket, Cohen scooped up the hair and put it into the jacket&#8217;s pocket, where it remained until Jackson&#8217;s death 25 years later.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/news#\/news\/jeweler-plans-to-sell-diamonds-from-the-1003997321.story\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading, or voice your disgust, at billboard.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Billboard.com Jeweler Plans To Sell Diamonds From The King of Pop&#8217;s Locks by Alex Palmer, N.Y.\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0\u00a0July 24, 2009 3:56 EDT The charred locks of hair from\u00a0Michael Jackson&#8216;s disastrous Pepsi commercial shoot are being turned into diamonds. Chicago-based jeweler LifeGem, which specializes in creating high-quality diamonds from individual hair samples, has announced plans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}