{"id":20463,"date":"2008-10-24T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/10\/24\/man-this-housing-downturn-is-hitting-everyone\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T10:00:01","slug":"man-this-housing-downturn-is-hitting-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081024-01\/?p=20463","title":{"rendered":"Man, this housing downturn is hitting everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.live.com\/default.aspx?v=2&amp;cp=47.594653~-122.246299&amp;lvl=19&amp;style=o\"> this house<\/a> on Mercer Island, which happens to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/WA\/home\/12465757\"> for sale<\/a>. Asking price: A shade under $35 million. Five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, over <a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/results.aspx?q=22799+square+feet+in+square+meters\"> 22 thousand square feet<\/a>, two swimming pools, space to park a 140-foot yacht, and an interior so opulent you&#8217;d be afraid to touch anything. If you were even allowed anywhere near it.<\/p>\n<p> But the sagging economy has taken its toll on this house. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/stories\/2004\/08\/16\/newscolumn2.html\"> They were originally asking $40 million<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> Best line from the article: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> &#8220;But we decided we might want to simplify a little, and move to Medina.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> For those who aren&#8217;t familiar with Seattle-area geography, Medina is the quiet little town which has the modest homes of simple people <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2001837979_gatesland16e.html\"> like Bill Gates<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this house on Mercer Island, which happens to be for sale. Asking price: A shade under $35 million. Five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, over 22 thousand square feet, two swimming pools, space to park a 140-foot yacht, and an interior so opulent you&#8217;d be afraid to touch anything. If you were even allowed anywhere near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-20463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Consider this house on Mercer Island, which happens to be for sale. Asking price: A shade under $35 million. Five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, over 22 thousand square feet, two swimming pools, space to park a 140-foot yacht, and an interior so opulent you&#8217;d be afraid to touch anything. If you were even allowed anywhere near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}