{"id":51,"date":"2008-07-21T05:15:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T05:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-03-15T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T10:05:33","slug":"furnished-by-ikea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Furnished by IKEA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally got most of my furniture from IKEA.  My place looks pretty nice&#8230; it&#8217;s the first time in four years that I&#8217;ve put my own personal touches on an apartment.   <a rel=\"nofollow\" TITLE=\"\" href=\"\" ><\/a>  \u00a0The 52&#8243; LCD Panel TV is a bit excessive but I can&#8217;t resist a <a title=\"Ben's Bargains\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bensbargains.net\" target=\"_blank\">bargain from Ben<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to realize that not all furniture  <a title='' href='' rel='nofollow' style='text-decoration:none;color: inherit !important;' >from IKEA<\/a>  is created equal.  A large portion of my furniture belongs to their Norvald line.  I don&#8217;t know what Norvald means, but after today I feel it is synonymous with piss poor quality control and stupid directions.  While I now have a Norvald table and four chairs, I also have calloused hands and a hatred of all wood faux black.  On the other hand, my new leather Vreta couch (sofa bed) just makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p>I love the way my apartment looks, but I still can&#8217;t get rid of this restless feeling.  After moving all this furniture into my place, I can&#8217;t help wonder what I&#8217;ll do when I&#8217;m back on the road.  Is this the beginning of the end for my carry-on bag lifestyle?  Will I adopt a puppy next?<\/p>\n<p>At least I&#8217;m ready for my sister&#8217;s visit next month&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally got most of my furniture from IKEA. My place looks pretty nice&#8230; it&#8217;s the first time in four years that I&#8217;ve put my own personal touches on an apartment. \u00a0The 52&#8243; LCD Panel TV is a bit excessive but I can&#8217;t resist a bargain from Ben. I&#8217;m starting to realize that not all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/koorse.com\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Furnished by IKEA!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}