{"id":41,"date":"2011-08-10T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-08-11T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T16:35:35","slug":"neighborhood-picnic-reply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/neighborhood-picnic-reply\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood Picnic &#8211; Reply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dick,<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to meet you Thursday evening.\u00a0 Thanks for stopping by to invite us to the neighborhood picnic you\u2019re hosting with Carol later this month.<\/p>\n<p>For the purpose of providing historical context and to explain our motivation, attached is a <a href=\"http:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/documents\/After_COA_Ruling.pdf\">letter<\/a> we mailed to everyone concurrently with requesting review by the North Carolina Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>While the legal issues were resolved to our complete satisfaction on August 18, 2006, there remains a fundamental difference in our understanding of how we\u2019re to treat our neighbors.\u00a0 Although the \u201cstick\u201d has been replaced by the \u201ccarrot\u201d in advancing the proposal to add walking trails and parks, the association\u2019s ultimate objective is the same as it was in 2003.\u00a0 The current situation in the Ledges is merely a temporary truce.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve current property owners were among those who consented in writing to the scheme described as \u201cunreasonable\u201d by the Court.\u00a0 To paraphrase George Staropoli, the founder of Citizens for Constitutional Local Government, there can be no friendly neighborhood get-together until the Amended Restated Covenants with their authoritarian predilections are disavowed.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of a dish to share, we\u2019ve made a donation to the Wounded Warrior project.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Robert and Vivian Armstrong<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick, It was nice to meet you Thursday evening.\u00a0 Thanks for stopping by to invite us to the neighborhood picnic you\u2019re hosting with Carol later this month. For the purpose of providing historical context and to explain our motivation, attached is a letter we mailed to everyone concurrently with requesting review by the North Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}