{"id":7658,"date":"2023-05-23T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7658"},"modified":"2023-05-24T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:22:23","slug":"the-slum-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7658","title":{"rendered":"The Slum Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are easily found around.<br>Property is purchased and let to sit<br>To accrue value by association<br>With the productive neighbors.<br>They enjoy the increase in value<br>Brought by the homes of others<br>Kept up by their labor and care,<br>While the &#8220;lords&#8221; lounge and neglect<br>To maintain their houses, exploiting<br>The labors of those who keep up<br>Their homes with responsible diligence.<br>Yes, derelicts and leeches are about<br>And they may even flex their clout<br>In politics and real estate maneuvers,<br>Ever interested in their own well-being<br>Giving no concern for the neighbors.<br>Not a neighborly way to live:<br>To take from others rather than give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">23 May, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are easily found around.Property is purchased and let to sitTo accrue value by associationWith the productive neighbors.They enjoy the increase in valueBrought by the homes of othersKept up by their labor and care,While the &#8220;lords&#8221; lounge and neglectTo maintain their houses, exploitingThe labors of those who keep upTheir homes with responsible diligence.Yes, derelicts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,57,30,52,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-or-not","category-citizenship","category-lamentations","category-poetry","category-position-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7661,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658\/revisions\/7661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}