{"id":4107,"date":"2010-03-24T22:19:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2010-03-24T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:26:08","slug":"neighbourhood-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/4107","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Neighbourhood Destruction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/4460789610\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2725\/4460789610_383ab5402d_b.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neighbourhood Destruction\" width=\"595\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago we noticed some of the buildings in our neighbourhood putting up protest signs that they didn\u2019t want to move.\u00a0 Having seen this in other areas of the city previously we knew that their days were numbered.\u00a0 The city had decided to demolish their houses to make way for newer and better buildings.\u00a0 It took years to get all the residents out finally and over the past half a year or so they\u2019ve started tearing them down.<\/p>\n<p>The houses in these photos are quite big but there were a lot which were very small and run down.\u00a0 I would often look at them as I passed by and wondered how people lived in such a small space.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Neighbourhood Destruction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/4460864980\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2711\/4460864980_f438d94992_b.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neighbourhood Destruction\" width=\"595\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost all gone now and the planning has already begun for the new houses that will go up in their place.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been living in this area for over 10 years now and I always found those small houses to have so much charm, even if they were severely outdated.\u00a0 Soon it will have a whole new and fresh look, totally up to date.<\/p>\n<p>It really is the end of an era for our neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>At one point I considered going into the houses to get some photos like I took at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2052\" target=\"_blank\">Doel<\/a>, but then I realized that there were signs warning against asbestos everywhere and decided against it.\u00a0 These photos from outside will have to do. \u00a0I&#8217;m really curious what it will be like once they are all gone and the new houses start going up. \u00a0I suspect it will make for some major change in our immediate area. \u00a0It will certainly look better! \u00a0For over a year we&#8217;ve only had abandoned buildings full of graffiti. \u00a0It was such an eyesore. \u00a0It won&#8217;t take much to improve on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago we noticed some of the buildings in our neighbourhood putting up protest signs that they didn\u2019t want to move.\u00a0 Having seen this in other areas of the city previously we knew that their days were numbered.\u00a0 The city had decided to demolish their houses to make way for newer and better &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,73],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","tag-neighbours","tag-rotterdam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4110,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/4110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}