{"id":2543,"date":"2013-01-19T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2013-01-19T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:28:52","slug":"treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2013\/01\/treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two nearly identical houses across the street from us went on the market today. An artist couple had been living there, but finally they decided to sell.<\/p>\n<p>I was out in our driveway putting racks on our car. I saw a couple pushing a stroller come up to the first house, and I heard a well-dressed woman, presumably the real estate agent, tell them, &#8220;We&#8217;re not quite ready to open yet. Come back in half an hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I came back from picking up some plywood, the houses were obviously open. Two or more cars a minute drove slowly down our dead end street, slowing down when they reached the two houses. The sign out in front of the first house said, &#8220;Treasure behind door #1.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t bother to see what the sign in front of the second house said.<\/p>\n<p>Carol went over to look. She said that paintings done by the artists who used to live there are hanging on the walls. She overheard someone say, &#8220;&#8230;but they won&#8217;t appreciate that much because they&#8217;re on the wrong side of&#8230;.&#8221; We <em>are<\/em> on the wrong side of the tracks: gardeners and artists and cab drivers and ministers live down this street; many of us are renters, and the majority of us aren&#8217;t white.<\/p>\n<p>But these houses are going for less than half a million, an incredible bargain in the Bay area housing market. So the people keep coming, amazed to find houses for so little money.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BlogJan1913.jpg\" alt=\"Jan 19 2013\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BlogJan1913.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BlogJan1913-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two nearly identical houses across the street from us went on the market today. An artist couple had been living there, but finally they decided to sell. I was out in our driveway putting racks on our car. I saw a couple pushing a stroller come up to the first house, and I heard a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2013\/01\/treasure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Treasure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}