{"id":340,"date":"2016-01-03T22:54:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2016-01-03T22:54:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:54:02","slug":"diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t understand people who leave trash in their yards. One yard I pass numerous times every day has had the same pieces of litter lying in it for over a week. Drives me crazy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the holiday season, so I tried to assume the folks were traveling and not available for maintenance. Yesterday, though, I noticed all of their outside Christmas lights and decorations had been removed. Yet the trash remains.<\/p>\n<p>How can people be in their yard, gathering decorations to put away for the year, and ignore four or five large pieces of paper lying in plain view?<\/p>\n<p>George, trying to strike a positive note, suggested that diversity in the neighborhood is a good thing, that I should be pleased to have neighbors with different attitudes and beliefs, and not expect everyone to be just like me.<\/p>\n<p>Diversity is one thing. Allowing your part of a neighborhood to look like a garbage dump is quite another since it affects real estate values and everyone else\u2019s enjoyment of their properties.<\/p>\n<p>Then we passed yet another yard with a wad of trash to which George pointed and said, \u201cSee? Now doesn\u2019t that make you happy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diversity.<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s Neighborhood Nabber time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t understand people who leave trash in their yards. One yard I pass numerous times every day has had the same pieces of litter lying in it for over a week. Drives me crazy. It\u2019s the holiday season, so I tried to assume the folks were traveling and not available for maintenance. Yesterday, though, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}