{"id":710,"date":"2004-08-20T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/710"},"modified":"2004-08-20T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T19:18:00","slug":"real-estate-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/710","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster! Horror! Travesty! The <a href=\"http:\/\/english.icx.ca\/PropertyDetails.aspx?vd=&#038;SearchURL=%3fPage%3d6%26Mode%3d0%26vs%3d2%26rlt%3d%26cp%3d%26pt%3d260%26mp%3d0-0-0%26mrt%3d-1-0-0%26o%3dA%26of%3d1%26ps%3d6%26db%3d0%26ld%3d0%26mfs%3d%26mxfs%3d%26mls%3d%26mxls%3d%26lsu%3d1%26brd%3d%26lid%3d%26aid%3d3361%26MapURL%3d%253fAreaID%253d6369&#038;Mode=0&#038;PropertyID=2722611\">local Burger King in my neighborhood is for sale<\/a> &#8211; our only Weston fast food retailer is leaving, and then WHAT WILL WE EAT??? When guests come to visit, how will we feed them? When I have children, how shall they not starve!?!!?!<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/english.icx.ca\/PropertyDetails.aspx?vd=&#038;SearchURL=%3fPage%3d2%26Mode%3d0%26vs%3d2%26rlt%3d%26cp%3d%26pt%3d260%26mp%3d0-0-0%26mrt%3d-1-0-0%26o%3dA%26of%3d1%26ps%3d6%26db%3d0%26ld%3d0%26mfs%3d%26mxfs%3d%26mls%3d%26mxls%3d%26lsu%3d1%26brd%3d%26lid%3d%26aid%3d3361%26MapURL%3d%253fAreaID%253d6369&#038;PropertyID=2734577\">this hilarious store at the end of Weston road that must have been a hunting shop is up for sale<\/a>. It has one really distinctive feature in the form of a massive fiberglass fish-head sticking out from the facade over the door. I briefly entertained the idea of selling my condo and buying it so that I could open a &#8220;Silver Snail Nostalgia&#8221; shop that would sell all the old toys that we don&#8217;t have room to keep on display at the store, but quickly realised that with the large fish, even if I spraypainted it, the store would become known as &#8220;Silver Fish Nostalgia&#8221; and that has nasty insectoids-under-the-sink-call-pest-control connotations. <\/p>\n<p>My retail ambitions will have to be put on hold once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster! Horror! Travesty! The local Burger King in my neighborhood is for sale &#8211; our only Weston fast food retailer is leaving, and then WHAT WILL WE EAT??? When guests come to visit, how will we feed them? When I have children, how shall they not starve!?!!?! Also, this hilarious store at the end of <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/710\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}