{"id":16787,"date":"2015-12-09T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T06:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=16787"},"modified":"2015-12-09T06:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T06:30:52","slug":"pietra-dura-on-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=16787","title":{"rendered":"Pietra Dura on Silk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I donned this black, soft silk Benarasi Valkalam saree to a wedding reception last week. Have always treasured it for its stunning Persian-carpet-like weave and motifs in the subtlest of jewel colours &#8211; jade, jasper, carnelian, ruby, coral, onyx and cat\u2019s eye. Highly stylized in its use of vines, floral and foliate patterns, yet almost architectural in its precision and beauty.<br \/>\nAmply reminiscent of the Italian pietra dura or marble inlay work so generously used by Emperor Shah Jahan to embellish his beloved wife\u2019s mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I donned this black, soft silk Benarasi Valkalam saree to a wedding reception last week. Have always treasured it for its stunning Persian-carpet-like weave and motifs in the subtlest of jewel colours &#8211; jade, jasper, carnelian, ruby, coral, onyx and cat\u2019s eye. Highly stylized in its use of vines, floral and foliate patterns, yet almost&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=16787\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[224],"tags":[571,747],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17051,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions\/17051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}