{"id":531,"date":"2006-05-18T17:44:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T01:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/neighbor\/"},"modified":"2006-05-22T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T19:07:49","slug":"neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/neighbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old lady moved in next door after the previous neighbor moved out three months ago. She&#8217;s into rescuing cats and all that good stuff. She&#8217;s managed to catch two cats and got them &#8220;fixed&#8221; since she moved here. We wish we&#8217;d known that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.palo-alto.ca.us\/police\/animal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palo Alto Animal Services<\/a> can do a relatively cheap &#8220;catch and release&#8221; program without putting the animals down. After our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/rip-kitty\/\">last experience<\/a> with the San Jose animal shelter, we decided not to do the animals any favors&#8230; But what Palo Alto is doing seems like a pretty good idea&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>So anyway&#8230; back to the neighbor&#8230; She has decided to move out of the neighborhood despite having only lived in her new apartment for only about a month. She thought the neighborhood is not up to her standards because we have a few Hispanic neighbors who like to play their music a little loud. Within days of moving in, she&#8217;d already verbally exchanged &#8220;kind words&#8221; with them about their music (which never really bothered us). This reminds me of an NPR (more like &#8220;This American Life&#8221; ) episode with Mr. Rogers. The segment had a scenario exactly like this &#8212; dealing with loud neighbors. When people know each other, what someone else does doesn&#8217;t really bother one another quite as much. But when nobody knows each other, friction seems to get picked up a lot more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll be welcoming a new neighbor soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old lady moved in next door after the previous neighbor moved out three months ago. She&#8217;s into rescuing cats and all that good stuff. She&#8217;s managed to catch two cats and got them &#8220;fixed&#8221; since she moved here. We wish we&#8217;d known that Palo Alto Animal Services can do a relatively cheap &#8220;catch and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/neighbor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neighbor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s54IqZ-neighbor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}