{"id":8254,"date":"2012-03-18T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T19:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=8254"},"modified":"2012-03-18T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T19:10:54","slug":"living-with-lego-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/living-with-lego-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with Lego in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wish you lived in a house made of Lego? <b>You<\/b> may not be able to, but only because you're not filthy rich and designing your dream apartment in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/legowall.jpg\" title=\"Photo by Thomas Loof, New York Magazine\" width=\"375\" height=\"555\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/homedesign\/greatrooms\/melissa-marks-2012-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">As reported by <i>New York<\/i> magazine<\/a>, artist Melissa Marks and her husband bought an open, spacious apartment in 1994. But 15 years later, they had a 10-year-old son who would soon need his privacy, and the options were either move to a new place, or remodel. They opted to stay where they were, and used one of their son's favorite toys as inspiration for his room. They hired Queens-based Lego artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seankenney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Kenney<\/a> to design and install a Lego wall and staircase. It took him and two assistants two weeks of 14-hour days to complete, though the exposed studs on the top of the surfaces mean young Archie and his friends can continue to build on them well into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wish you lived in a house made of Lego? You may not be able to, but only because you're not filthy rich and designing your dream apartment in Manhattan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8259,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions\/8259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}