{"id":704,"date":"2006-10-22T07:11:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T12:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=704"},"modified":"2006-10-22T07:11:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T12:11:37","slug":"ikea-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"IKEA and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried &#8211; so hard &#8211; to buy anything for myself from the local IKEA that costs more than $2.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve purchased furniture and a sundry or two that sit in my grandsons&#8217; room, but haven&#8217;t found anything suitable for Inner Keep, and think I&#8217;ve figured out why.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s IKEA&#8217;s target market:  Gen-Xers and their younger siblings who aspire to a middle class lifestyle.  I am not part of this market, obviously, and as the novelty of this relatively new store has worn off, I&#8217;m less and less enchanted with the shopping experience.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like a sad goodbye to one&#8217;s youth, but as with so many other things, time to move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried &#8211; so hard &#8211; to buy anything for myself from the local IKEA that costs more than $2. I&#8217;ve purchased furniture and a sundry or two that sit in my grandsons&#8217; room, but haven&#8217;t found anything suitable for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=704\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}