{"id":851,"date":"2023-05-15T19:51:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/2023\/05\/15\/financial-times-why-cant-i-paint-my-door-yellow\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:02:59","slug":"financial-times-why-cant-i-paint-my-door-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/financial-times-why-cant-i-paint-my-door-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Times: Why can\u2019t I paint my door yellow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Florida, Mike Martirena lives in Miami-Dade County\u2019s Mediterranean-themed Coral Gables, built during the land rush prior to the Depression and one of the US\u2019s first planned communities. Its founder, George Merrick, studied the City Beautiful movement, a late 19th-century approach to urban planning that championed ornamental grandeur. He felt storybook architectural styles inspired by Spanish castles would promote civic virtue and improve quality of life.<\/p>\n

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\nRubbish bins are to be kept out of sight from the street; tree-trimming requires a trip to the town hall due to vigilance around conserving historic banyans and oaks, and advertisements on cars are banned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s someone who actually goes around on a golf cart to ensure nothing has changed; they fined my mother-in-law for changing a side door,\u201d says Martirena. \u201cIt may get frustrating, but it\u2019s what you sign up for in a historic community. It\u2019s beautiful and orderly; there\u2019s something peaceful about that.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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In Florida, Mike Martirena lives in Miami-Dade County\u2019s Mediterranean-themed Coral Gables, built during the land rush prior to the Depression and one of the US\u2019s first planned communities. Its founder, George Merrick, studied the City Beautiful movement, a late 19th-century approach to urban planning that championed ornamental grandeur. He felt storybook architectural styles inspired by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,176,13,17,75],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miami-beach-real-estate","tag-bespoke-real-estate-services-south-florida","tag-financial-times","tag-high-net-worth-real-estate-advisors-florida","tag-miami-luxury-real-estate-market","tag-michael-martirena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanandmike.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}