{"id":444,"date":"2005-09-08T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=444"},"modified":"2005-09-08T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T19:30:22","slug":"what-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"What the * ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebostonchannel.com\/news\/4939738\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">thebostonchannel.com<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>Some landlords in Boston are offering vacant apartments to hurricane survivors for free&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nEric Stevens, one such landlord, is making 3 apartments available, rent-free, for one year.<em>&#8220;They are 1,200 square foot four-bedroom apartments. They are de-leaded, and they are brand new construction. They have eat in kitchens and washers and dryers. They come with parking.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Mr. Stevens has) a friend at Bob&#8217;s Discount Furniture, who also offered to help the evacuees.<br \/>\n&#8220;They said, &#8216;How much furniture do you need?&#8217; They committed to it and the furniture will be here in about 48 hours,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe evacuees will be allowed to keep the furniture once they find more permanent housing.<\/em><\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nAnd what about local people in need?  What about the families in Boston who are living in substandard, dangerous conditions, either in public housing or slumlord apartments?<br \/>\nGuess Massachusetts &#8211; currently, the only state with a declining population &#8211; is so desperate for new people that they have to lure them in with free apartments, food, transportation and medical care.<br \/>\nEven so, folks are so jumpy about coming here that they have to airlift &#8217;em in &#8211; at gunpoint.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, one of my friends got herself a job as a part-time office manager at a horse farm.<br \/>\nShe said it&#8217;s training for her future career as FEMA director.<br \/>\nI told her that she needs to get fired first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From thebostonchannel.com: Some landlords in Boston are offering vacant apartments to hurricane survivors for free&#8230; Eric Stevens, one such landlord, is making 3 apartments available, rent-free, for one year.&#8220;They are 1,200 square foot four-bedroom apartments. They are de-leaded, and they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}