{"id":3926,"date":"2009-01-05T06:32:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T11:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2009-01-04T19:33:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T00:33:47","slug":"heroes-of-soviet-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3926","title":{"rendered":"Heroes of Soviet Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Habitat homes in big project built by Jimmy Carter and a raft of celebs are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article5439388.ece\">having trouble:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers, including Carter, in a record 17-day \u201cblitz\u201d organised by the charity Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later it is better known for cockroaches, mildew and mysterious skin rashes.<\/p>\n<p>A forthcoming legal battle over Fairway Oaks threatens the reputation of a charity envied for the calibre of its celebrity supporters, who range from Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt to Colin Firth, Christian Bale and Helena Bonham Carter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;m not going to pile on Habitat; the <em>right <\/em>H4H project can be a very good thing.<\/p>\n<p>But trying to make something worth other than what it&#8217;s intrinsically worth is a bad idea to start with; trying to do it on a large scale is like selling at a loss but trying to make up for it in volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habitat homes in big project built by Jimmy Carter and a raft of celebs are having trouble: RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers, including Carter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}