In a triumph of bling over restraint, the bride will get a hen do in space and a party on a super-yacht<\/p>\n
Well done us. It can\u2019t be long before Jeff Bezos personally extends his thanks<\/a>, as he did when we \u2013 Amazon employees and Amazon customers \u2013 paid for his flight to sub-orbital space, but let\u2019s not wait. As soon as Monday, when his fiancee, Lauren S\u00e1nchez, is due with five friends on a rocket trip, Amazon givers could be witness, again, to the kind of unfettered excess that is only possible if everyone, at every level, contributes, even if it\u2019s only via permanent surveillance and a surrendered toilet\u00a0break<\/a>.<\/p>\n But no one puts it better than Jeff, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, did himself, after he took his inaugural Blue Origin space trip in 2021. \u201cYou guys paid for all this.\u201d More recently, we provided funds \u2013 that might not exist without the company\u2019s pitiless working conditions \u2013 for S\u00e1nchez\u2019s pink diamond engagement ring<\/a>, proudly exhibited, estimated value, $3m. The billionaire delivered it, an enchanted Vogue<\/em> writer reported<\/a>, in the sweetest way, on his massive new yacht, \u201chiding the ring under her pillow after a starlit dinner \u00e0 deux\u201d. Few passions have been as exhaustively documented as that between these seasoned lovebirds.\u00a0(Favourite saying: \u201cLove you to space and back.\u201d) And this week, prior to funding the solemnisation of that love \u2013 a June wedding in Venice \u2013 it will duly be our privilege\u00a0to watch Lauren\u2019s hen flight slip the\u00a0surly bonds of Earth.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a triumph of bling over restraint, the bride will get a hen do in space and a party on a super-yacht Well done us. It can\u2019t be long before Jeff Bezos personally extends his thanks, as he did when we \u2013 Amazon employees and Amazon customers \u2013 paid for his flight to sub-orbital space, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}