{"id":6304,"date":"2018-07-15T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T22:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2018-07-15T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T22:02:38","slug":"echoes-of-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6304","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=Indent><a href='https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=645'>Way back in 2008<\/a>, we were dealing with a horrible neighbor in Glasgow who felt that he needed to bring the pub party back to his basement flat &#8230; beneath us.  It was truly awful, and exhausting, dealing with police who wouldn&#8217;t take any action, and a pipsqueak of a neighbor who just couldn&#8217;t understand that we needed rest, even if he didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Fast forward to <a href='https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=5287'>another flat, and 8 years later<\/a>, when the neighbor <i>upstairs<\/i> (again in Glasgow) decided to put on an album &#8230; and promptly pass out, leaving us to endure horrible bass going all night long.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>You can imagine our consternation when the bass started up last night, here in Newark.  After a few hours of hoping and waiting, when 10 p.m. rolled around I phoned the police &#8230; who asked where we lived &#8230; and then told us they&#8217;d been getting calls since about 6 p.m. and there was nothing they could do about it.<\/p>\n<div clear=both align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/41960013485\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Newark 132\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1807\/41960013485_9157064afc_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Newark 132\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=Indent>Above is a shot taken from our driveway, looking out towards the Dumbarton bridge.  We&#8217;re perfectly situated for Shoreline Amphitheater to blast the bass all the way across the bay, directly towards us, and for us to have to endure some other city&#8217;s lack of noise ordinance.  Grr.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>-D<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 2008, we were dealing with a horrible neighbor in Glasgow who felt that he needed to bring the pub party back to his basement flat &#8230; beneath us. It was truly awful, and exhausting, dealing with police who wouldn&#8217;t take any action, and a pipsqueak of a neighbor who just couldn&#8217;t understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-glasgow","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}