{"id":642,"date":"2004-09-01T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2004-09-01T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T20:44:35","slug":"saudis-lose-their-minds-for-economical-swedish-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Saudis lose their minds for economical Swedish furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ikea-usa.com\/ms\/en_US\/img\/virtual_catalogue\/UScover05_525_275.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"92\" border=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/3618190.stm\">BBC News: Three Die in Saudi Shop Stampede<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>A Saudi man and a Pakistani man were among those killed, officials in the port city of Jeddah said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred after shoppers rushed into a branch of Ikea to claim a limited number of credit vouchers being offered to the public. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>All that, for a $150 credit voucher.  I shudder to think about what might have happened at last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea-usa.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/IkeaNearYouView?storeId=12&amp;langId=-1&amp;catalogId=10101&amp;StoreName=philadelphia\">Philadelphia<\/a> grand opening.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I&#8217;m glad we didn&#8217;t wait around trying to get free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea-usa.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?storeId=12&amp;langId=-1&amp;catalogId=10101&amp;productId=11055\">PO\u00c4NG<\/a> chairs.  We might have gotten disemboweled or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Three Die in Saudi Shop Stampede A Saudi man and a Pakistani man were among those killed, officials in the port city of Jeddah said. The incident occurred after shoppers rushed into a branch of Ikea to claim a limited number of credit vouchers being offered to the public. All that, for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hxip-am","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}