{"id":8502,"date":"2003-01-06T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/1969\/12\/31\/couldnt-you-have-gotten-a-dog-instead\/"},"modified":"2003-01-06T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-07T00:00:00","slug":"couldnt-you-have-gotten-a-dog-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/01\/couldnt-you-have-gotten-a-dog-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Couldn&#039;t you have gotten a dog instead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>The dispute, which has landed in federal court, is about<br \/>\na 1- year-old girl named Amber who lives in a quaint cul-de-sac on Northwest<br \/>\n11th Court. The homeowners association has asked her parents to kick the baby<br \/>\nout.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford &#8220;Hank&#8221; Marcus, 36, a small-business owner, bought his home<br \/>\nin the neighborhood in 1994, two years before a majority of Paradise Gardens<br \/>\nPhase One homeowners reportedly voted to restrict the neighborhood to homeowners<br \/>\n55 years and older. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Read more, including an excerpt from the letter sent by<br \/>\nthe association&#8217;s attorney&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The age restrictions did not affect Marcus and his wife,<br \/>\nPenny, because they bought their house before the change. But last year, Amber<br \/>\nwas born. The family received a letter in the mail this year from the<br \/>\nassociation and another from the association&#8217;s attorney, Kenneth<br \/>\nZeilberger.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;Demand is hereby made upon you to cause the immediate<br \/>\nremoval of the infant &#8230; from your home,&#8221; Zeilberger wrote. &#8220;While we<br \/>\nunderstand the inconvenience such a demand will cause you, the association has<br \/>\ndetermined its preference [to be a seniors-only community].&#8221;<\/font><br \/>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/pqasb.pqarchiver.com\/sun_sentinel\/access\/209629211.html?FMT=FT&amp;FMTS=FT&amp;desc=BABY%27S+ARRIVAL+IGNITES+LAWSUIT\"\ntarget=_blank>Full Story<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dispute, which has landed in federal court, is about a 1- year-old girl named Amber who lives in a quaint cul-de-sac on Northwest 11th Court. The homeowners association has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}