{"id":8769,"date":"2012-12-14T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T22:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2012-12-14T16:26:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T22:26:25","slug":"why-legos-are-so-expensive-and-so-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8769","title":{"rendered":"Why Legos Are So Expensive \u2014 And So Popular"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lego goes to great lengths to make its pieces really, really well, says David Robertson, who is working on a book about Lego.<\/p>\n<p>Inside every Lego brick, there are three numbers, which identify exactly which mold the brick came from and what position it was in in that mold. That way, if there&#8217;s a bad brick somewhere, the company can go back and fix the mold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2012\/12\/13\/167055503\/why-legos-are-so-expensive-and-so-popular\">Why Legos Are So Expensive \u2014 And So Popular : Planet Money : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lego goes to great lengths to make its pieces really, really well, says David Robertson, who is working on a book about Lego. Inside every Lego brick, there are three numbers, which identify exactly which mold the brick came from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8769\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[34,279],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-patents","tag-quality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8770,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}