{"id":659,"date":"2004-06-06T22:08:45","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T03:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/06\/06\/the-sofa\/"},"modified":"2004-06-07T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T19:05:34","slug":"the-sofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/06\/06\/the-sofa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sofa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I would like to know is, why does it take 8 weeks to get a couch?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t they have a couch factory that just rolls them off the line, and when we want a couch that is in a certain fabric, they just slap it together?<\/p>\n<p>Well, my experiences with the furniture industry have left me wondering about a few other issues as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How is it that JC Penney Home has a one-day-only 40%-off sale nearly once a week? Who would buy something during the rest of the week?<\/li>\n<li>Why does Marshall Fields have the exact same couch as JC Penney&#8217;s but with a different name on it and another $300 on the price tag?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are others, I suppose, but for now, I will ponder these questions for the next 8 weeks or so while we await the arrival of our sofa and chair.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they fit down in the basement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I would like to know is, why does it take 8 weeks to get a couch? Don&#8217;t they have a couch factory that just rolls them off the line, and when we want a couch that is in a certain fabric, they just slap it together? Well, my experiences with the furniture industry have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-aD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}