{"id":5138,"date":"2013-05-28T12:18:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T18:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2013-05-28T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T18:18:55","slug":"the-house-i-was-born-in-sold-for-4000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5138","title":{"rendered":"The house I was born in sold for $4000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/baus.net\/4000-dollar-house\/\">Chris Baus<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The house my parents owned when I was born recently sold for $4000 [1]. I&#8217;m not omitting a zero or two. That&#8217;s about the price of a used 2001 Honda Civic with 150,000 miles &#8212; maybe the Honda is worth a bit more. My parents sold the house for $12,000 (three zeros) in the &#8217;70s. Times have been tough for as long as I can remember my hometown of Jamestown (about 60 miles from Buffalo), NY, but I still found this surprising. This is especially astonishing if your are faced with increasing rent and real estate prices in metropolitan areas like NYC, Seattle, and San Francisco.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Baus: The house my parents owned when I was born recently sold for $4000 [1]. I&#8217;m not omitting a zero or two. That&#8217;s about the price of a used 2001 Honda Civic with 150,000 miles &#8212; maybe the Honda is worth a bit more. My parents sold the house for $12,000 (three zeros) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}