{"id":369,"date":"2005-02-14T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T17:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=369"},"modified":"2005-02-15T09:32:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T16:32:47","slug":"color-coordinated-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Colour-Coordinated Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purveyors of home furnishings in Iraq are having to change their inventory:<\/p>\n

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Before the war, low-ranking civil servants would have been content to earn the equivalent of $20. Now, they complain at anything lower than $300, observers say.<\/p>\n

The result, according to carpet importer Ahmed Haji Rasul, has been a radical change in consumer taste. “In the past, people made do with what they could afford,” he told IRIN in the Sulaymaniyah bazaar. “Now they want colour-coordinated house interiors, European stuff. We’ve had to start importing from further afield.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the this story and many more in Arthur Chrenkoff’s latest Good News from Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purveyors of home furnishings in Iraq are having to change their inventory: Before the war, low-ranking civil servants would have been content to earn the equivalent of $20. Now, they complain at anything lower than $300, observers say. The result, according to carpet importer Ahmed Haji Rasul, has been a radical change in consumer taste. … Continue reading “Colour-Coordinated Houses”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}