{"id":9807,"date":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"flash-is-out-for-us-wealthy-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/flash-is-out-for-us-wealthy-on-valentines-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Flash is out for U.S. wealthy on Valentine&#8217;s day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Flashiness is out and subdued celebration is in among wealthy Americans on Valentine&#8217;s Day. <\/p>\n<p>As the economic crisis spreads and conspicuous consumption loses its luster, hedge fund millionaires and oil barons are shunning eye-catching items like yellow, red and blue diamonds in favor of lower-key gifts, luxury industry watchers say.<\/p>\n<p>In Hollywood, it is easier to book reservations at marquee restaurants than last year for the romantic day on Feb. 14, a restaurant publicist said, noting entertainment big shots now tend to favor eateries that have cut their entree prices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/fundsFundsNews\/idUSN0433875020090205\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Flashiness is out and subdued celebration is in among wealthy Americans on Valentine&#8217;s Day. As the economic crisis spreads and conspicuous consumption loses its luster, hedge fund millionaires and oil barons are shunning eye-catching items like yellow, red [&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":[7007,7004,7006,7011,7002,7009,1966,7005,7010,7012,7008,7003,5986,7001,5001,7013,4326,2331],"class_list":["post-9807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-big-shots","tag-blue-diamonds","tag-book-reservations","tag-celebration","tag-conspicuous-consumption","tag-eateries","tag-economic-crisis","tag-entree-prices","tag-feb-14","tag-hollywood","tag-luster","tag-luxury-industry","tag-millionaires","tag-oil-barons","tag-publicist","tag-restaurants","tag-reuters","tag-valentine-s-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807","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=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}