{"id":10648,"date":"2009-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-harpies-crave-birkins-steal-husbands-psycho-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/hedge-fund-harpies-crave-birkins-steal-husbands-psycho-critic.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-Fund Harpies Crave Birkins, Steal Husbands; Psycho Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; It is a truth universally acknowledged that a hedge-fund wife whose fortune takes a dive will be looking for a wealthier husband. Tatiana Boncompagni, after all, says it&rsquo;s so in her frothy novel &ldquo;Hedge Fund Wives.&rdquo;             <\/p>\n<p>Her Upper East Side women need to keep up appearances. Gone may be the days of baby-shower goody bags &ldquo;stuffed with diamond earrings and four-figure day spa gift certificates,&rdquo; but how will they live without private planes and chartreuse Birkin bags?     <\/p>\n<p>Guide to this rarefied world is Marcy Emerson, a down-to- earth Midwesterner who moves to New York when her husband becomes a hedge-fund manager. She begins attending parties and benefits with the other wives. Some are welcoming; others make the North Pole seem warm.     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601088&#038;sid=aGcuHJiRISgg&#038;refer=muse\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; It is a truth universally acknowledged that a hedge-fund wife whose fortune takes a dive will be looking for a wealthier husband. Tatiana Boncompagni, after all, says it&rsquo;s so in her frothy novel &ldquo;Hedge Fund Wives.&rdquo; Her Upper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12084,12078,12081,12079,12087,12085,3088,12077,37,12083,12082,12086,12080,12076,11438,10891],"class_list":["post-10648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-baby-shower","tag-birkin-bags","tag-day-spa","tag-diamond-earrings","tag-down-to-earth","tag-emerson","tag-fortune","tag-goody-bags","tag-hedge-fund-manager","tag-marcy","tag-north-pole","tag-novel","tag-private-planes","tag-spa-gift-certificates","tag-truth","tag-upper-east-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}