{"id":713144,"date":"2010-04-09T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/04\/smithsonian-goes-mass-market\/38699\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:10:15","slug":"smithsonian-goes-mass-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/713144","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian Goes Mass Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a forthcoming piece on QVC, which means I’ve been spending a lot of time keeping current on home shopping news.  I have become a huge fan of the Home Shopping Queen<\/a>, who displays an astonishing breadth of knowledge of all things home shopping, and does a yeoman’s job keeping abreast of the news.<\/p>\n

That’s where I caught this little tidbit:  the Smithsonian is licensing its jewelry collection to QVC<\/a>.  Now you, too, can own your own copy of the Hope diamond, done in authentic Diamonique simulated diamond, and available on five easy payments of $15.47.<\/p>\n

Actually, I think it’s nice–and yes, I also approve of those machines that let you have a canvas replica of a Monet for $150.  Why shouldn’t people have beautiful replicas in their homes?  Allowing the American public to enjoy a little piece of their national museum seems like a nice alternative to just raising their taxes.<\/p>\n



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I have a forthcoming piece on QVC, which means I’ve been spending a lot of time keeping current on home shopping news.  I have become a huge fan of the Home Shopping Queen, who displays an astonishing breadth of knowledge of all things home shopping, and does a yeoman’s job keeping abreast of the news. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zwk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814392,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713144\/revisions\/814392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}