{"id":454,"date":"2008-08-13T22:15:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T06:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=454"},"modified":"2023-01-07T20:35:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T04:35:30","slug":"hyckleri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Hyckleri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an <abbr title=\"Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd\">IKEA<\/abbr> catalogue in the mails to-day.  They shouldn't have bothered, as I will not buy from them.<\/p> <p>In 1999, <abbr title=\"Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd\">IKEA<\/abbr> proposed to the City of New Rochelle, <abbr class=\"noshrink\" title=\"New York\">NY<\/abbr>, that they use eminent domain to steal the City Park neighborhood, so that <abbr title=\"Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd\">IKEA<\/abbr> could have the land for a store.<\/p> <p>On the cover of the catalogue, it says<\/p> <blockquote>Home <span style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">is the most important place in the world.<\/span><\/blockquote> <p>I imagine that some of the people in the City Park neighborhood felt that way about <em>their<\/em> homes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I received an IKEA catalogue in the mails to-day. They shouldn't have bothered, as I will not buy from them. In 1999, IKEA proposed to the City of New Rochelle, NY, that they use eminent domain to steal the City Park neighborhood, so that IKEA could have the land for a store. On the cover [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,4],"tags":[368,369,370,371],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-personal","category-public","tag-eminent-domain","tag-ikea","tag-thieves","tag-vermin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12079,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/12079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}