{"id":518,"date":"2007-04-19T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2009-02-21T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T22:53:10","slug":"party-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/party-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In England a long time ago someone important decided that the buildings should be made of brick and mortar instead of wood. In order to support the increased weight of the upper floors, wider walls were needed. To avoid significant loss of square footage on the lower lever because of thicker walls, \u201cparty walls\u201d shared by neighbors were erected. Each neighbor had a duty to maintain the wall and to refrain from damaging the integrity of the \u201cparty wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New England\u2019s adoption of the \u201cparty walls\u201d approach to fences and other such developments between property owners was the inspiration for Robert Frost\u2019s poem, \u201cMending Wall,\u201d which ends with, \u201cGood fences make good neighbors.\u201d (link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In England a long time ago someone important decided that the buildings should be made of brick and mortar instead of wood. In order to support the increased weight of the upper floors, wider walls were needed. To avoid significant loss of square footage on the lower lever because of thicker walls, \u201cparty walls\u201d shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1157,85,398,397,326,368,149],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-school-personal-accounts","tag-law-school-personal-accounts","tag-law-school","tag-new-england","tag-party-walls","tag-poet","tag-property","tag-robert-frost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}