{"id":7202,"date":"2018-12-20T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T05:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2018-12-20T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T05:15:46","slug":"good-fences-make-good-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/good-fences-make-good-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Good fences make good neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Prompt: Consider Robert Frost&#8217;s poem about the two neighbors fixing the wall between their properties, where Frost&#8217;s sympathies are clearly with the one who doesn&#8217;t think they need the wall at all but the other insists &#8220;good fences make good neighbors&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my neighborhood was funky back<br \/>\nwhen we moved there in \u201989<br \/>\nthe grass grew tall, the roofs were wood<br \/>\nthe houses had a sense of time<\/p>\n<p>it wasn\u2019t perfect, not at all<br \/>\nI once put out a kids\u2019 slide set<br \/>\nand got a note to take it down<br \/>\na slight I can\u2019t forget<\/p>\n<p>but the woman two doors down would come<br \/>\nand we\u2019d talk and have some tea<br \/>\nboys would run around and play<br \/>\nthe trees were fun, the streets were free<\/p>\n<p>and gradually the kids grew up<br \/>\nand went away to live their lives<br \/>\nthe neighborhood got quiet then<br \/>\npeople got older, people died<\/p>\n<p>prices went up, but no one cared<br \/>\nbecause no one meant to sell<br \/>\nthen my next door neighbor left<br \/>\nwhich sounded a starting bell<\/p>\n<p>(she didn\u2019t leave, to tell the truth<br \/>\nshe fell when she was alone<br \/>\nwhen she was found, her daughter<br \/>\nhad her put into a home)<\/p>\n<p>her house was fixed up and flipped<br \/>\nwith vinyl, tile, and white<br \/>\nthe garage was automatic<br \/>\nand the lights came on at night<\/p>\n<p>then aliens came, so young and clean<br \/>\nin groups, in little bands<br \/>\ntheir Lulu yoga pants so tight<br \/>\ntheir phones attached to hands<\/p>\n<p>they started little park parties<br \/>\nand that was very nice<br \/>\nbut as they kept fixing up their homes<br \/>\nand jacking up the price<\/p>\n<p>the pace was changed<br \/>\nand now our homes looked old and out-of-place<br \/>\nwhat we had loved as funky<br \/>\nthey saw as potential space<\/p>\n<p>our fences had meant nothing<br \/>\nbeen replaced when someone cared<br \/>\nbut now they were defences<br \/>\nso that we would be spared<\/p>\n<p>the trees still free, the streets now crammed<br \/>\nwith the fruits of financial labor<br \/>\nso much has changed that makes it much<br \/>\nharder to love thy neighbor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt: Consider Robert Frost&#8217;s poem about the two neighbors fixing the wall between their properties, where Frost&#8217;s sympathies are clearly with the one who doesn&#8217;t think they need the wall at all but the other insists &#8220;good fences make good neighbors&#8221;. &nbsp; my neighborhood was funky back when we moved there in \u201989 the grass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7203,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}