{"id":75502,"date":"2025-12-04T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/04\/new-zealand-first-ikea-store-auckland"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:37:44","slug":"new-zealand-assembles-for-opening-of-its-first-ikea-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75502","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand assembles for opening of its first Ikea store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight camping was banned and motorists were told to plan their journey as New Zealand finally joined the flatpack family<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting 25 years for this,\u201d says Annie Sattler.<\/p>\n<p>A quarter of a century after she emigrated from Germany, and seven years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/20\/ikea-new-zealand-frenzy\">since the store was first announced<\/a>, Sattler was prepared to wait just a few hours extra to be among the earliest through the doors of Ikea\u2019s first outlet in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/04\/new-zealand-first-ikea-store-auckland\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight camping was banned and motorists were told to plan their journey as New Zealand finally joined the flatpack family\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting 25 years for this,\u201d says Annie Sattler.A quarter of a century after she emigrated from Germany, and seven yea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,3458,56,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-ikea","category-new-zealand","category-retail-industry"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75510,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75502\/revisions\/75510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}