{"id":63,"date":"2014-10-07T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T00:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=63"},"modified":"2014-12-16T10:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:06:02","slug":"our-new-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Our new neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dimension.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-64\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dimension-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"dimension\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dimension-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dimension-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dimension-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Major construction is complete on the apartment building kitty-corner from our home, called Dimension by Alta. \u00a0People not wearing hardhats are sometimes seen inside now. \u00a0At twenty-seven stories it&#8217;s taller than we expected to see hereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>It also doesn&#8217;t seem particularly graceful if you ask me, but there may be an explanation for that. \u00a0Apparently the City has required that new buildings not be &#8220;monolithic,&#8221; hoping to avoid the drab facelessness that resulted from some earlier, utilitarian development. Bright yellow ridges affixed to the outside, contrasting with Z-brick around the base, would seem to fill the bill. \u00a0The building should mostly fade into the mist like the monoliths behind and to the left, though. \u00a0We hope that new neighbors will mean lots of new shops and services too.<\/p>\n<p>In its shape the new building mirrors the one to the right, Seattle Heights. \u00a0The last apartment we looked at, just before finding the one where we live now, was on the seventh floor there. \u00a0Sometimes we see the people who moved there in our stead, grilling on their terrace for instance. \u00a0They have a much &#8220;better&#8221; view of the new Dimension, which we admit is one reason that we chose to live at the Mosler Lofts. \u00a0On the other, left, side of the new building, at the same level, is visible a corner of the Lexington Apartments, a home through most of the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major construction is complete on the apartment building kitty-corner from our home, called Dimension by Alta. \u00a0People not wearing hardhats are sometimes seen inside now. \u00a0At twenty-seven stories it&#8217;s taller than we expected to see hereabouts. It also doesn&#8217;t seem particularly graceful if you ask me, but there may be an explanation for that. \u00a0Apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}