{"id":6610,"date":"2022-10-19T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2022-10-19T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:23:09","slug":"property-leeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6610","title":{"rendered":"Property Leeches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They buy up houses or land and invest <em>nothing<\/em> in development, beautification, improvement &#8211; to the chagrin of the neighbors who must endure the disparaging condition of the degrading property.\u00a0\u00a0 They care, apparently, nothing for their neighbor&#8217;s property and their well-being, but seek only their own advancement in wealth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Tis really nothing new.  Human depravity on display in the venue of real estate.\u00a0 Another display of the failure of neighbors to love their neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, those sometimes cumbersome regulations are mandated in some neighborhoods across the land.&nbsp; Irritating fines are imposed when paint is peeling or lawn is overgrown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Freedom!&#8221; we often cry.&nbsp; And it is a good thing.&nbsp; But human depravity turns it, at times, into a bad thing for neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 Oct., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They buy up houses or land and invest nothing in development, beautification, improvement &#8211; to the chagrin of the neighbors who must endure the disparaging condition of the degrading property.\u00a0\u00a0 They care, apparently, nothing for their neighbor&#8217;s property and their well-being, but seek only their own advancement in wealth.\u00a0 &#8216;Tis really nothing new. Human depravity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,57,30,56,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-or-not","category-citizenship","category-lamentations","category-liberty","category-position-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}