As the nation\u2019s media deploys to a big blue shed in Sylvia Park, join us for every frenzied update.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For over six years, the country has held its breath waiting for the arrival of Swedish furniture giant Ikea. With its succulent meatballs and reasonably-priced flatpack furniture, the 34,000 square metre, three-storey high store finally opens today at Sylvia Park in Auckland. Experts are predicting some 20,000 people will pop in, leading to 40 minute delays<\/a> for commuters around Mount Wellington, and apparently another 40 minutes to find a carpark.<\/p>\n Braving the throng of punters filling their Frakta bags to the brim will be representatives from the nation\u2019s media, bringing you everything you need to know about the biggest international arrival to Aotearoa since Brad Pitt went through a McDonald\u2019s drive-thru in K\u016bmeu. Will a Breakfast reporter end up embroiled with a Bl\u00e5sverk lamp? Will journalists be stuck live-blogging from the motorway? And who will be first to get the scoop on the meatballs?<\/p>\n We\u2019ll be here to live blog Ikea-geddon, every step of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the nation\u2019s media deploys to a big blue shed in Sylvia Park, join us for every frenzied…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[492,42,18657,668,108748,4238,111,43,108749,1243,2935,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-166704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-comments-enabled","tag-headlines","tag-homepage-feature","tag-ikea","tag-ikea-new-zealand","tag-live-blog","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-related-hidden","tag-shopping","tag-society","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}