{"id":1440,"date":"2008-02-18T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2008\/02\/18\/also-disgusting\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T20:42:46","slug":"also-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/also-disgusting\/","title":{"rendered":"also disgusting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/995-fifth-avenue-500px.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"995 fifth avenue\" \/><\/p>\n<p>still worked up by those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2008\/02\/16\/steelworks-my-bunghole\/\">Steelworks ads<\/a>, then I remembered this ad from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYTimes Magazine<\/a> from a couple weeks back: an 8000+ square foot residencies available on Fifth Avenue &#8211; &#8216;the finest on fifth&#8217;. Only $31 million. I currently live in an 8000 sq. ft. loft space, albeit with 17 people! We live in rooms the size of these walk-in-closets. And they have 9 bathrooms &#8211; we have 3! My main concern however isn&#8217;t the division of wealth inherent in this ad, but the layout, the architecture! The place looks terribly organized! If you&#8217;re in the Library and want to get to the Wet Bar (an activity I frequently engage in), you have to walk approximately 150 feet! I couldn&#8217;t be bothered &#8211; I&#8217;d have to design a &#8216;wet bar cart&#8217; to tow around with me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicknormal\/2274956896\/sizes\/l\/\">view larger image on my Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>still worked up by those Steelworks ads, then I remembered this ad from the NYTimes Magazine from a couple weeks back: an 8000+ square foot residencies available on Fifth Avenue &#8211; &#8216;the finest on fifth&#8217;. Only $31 million. I currently live in an 8000 sq. ft. loft space, albeit with 17 people! We live in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","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":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[159,160],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-nytimes","tag-real-estate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/995-fifth-avenue-500px.jpg?fit=500%2C306&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}