{"id":1474,"date":"2019-03-27T04:50:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:50:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:50:53","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-is-building-a-giant-wall-around-his-home-and-his-neighbors-arent-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Is Building A Giant Wall Around His Home And His Neighbors Aren&rsquo;t Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>You\u2019re taking the wrong cues from Donald Trump. Mark Zuckberg\u2019s Hawaiian neighbors may be about to unfriend him in a major way. The Facebook CEO is causing a bit of an uproar with plans to build a massive wall around his property on Kauai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Construction on the \u201cdaunting and forbidding\u201d wall reportedly began a little over a month ago, according to <span>CBS<\/span>. According to some neighbors, the height of the wall blocks views of the ocean, although another report says it\u2019s actually much smaller than a wall built by the property\u2019s previous owner and the current barbed wire fence. Some reports peg the wall as being around 6 feet, though one neighbor said it\u2019s closer to 4 and that he can look over it. Regardless, that hasn\u2019t stopped some locals from venting their frustration.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s really sad that somebody would come in, and buy a huge piece of land and the first thing they do is cut off this view that\u2019s been available and appreciative by the community here for years,\u201d local resident Gy Hall told the <span>Garden Island<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Zuckberg bought the <span>700-acre property<\/span> back in 2014. Local property manager Lindsay Andrews said in a statement that the rock wall\u2019s only purpose is to reduce noise pollution, rather than creating a nuisance for locals. &#8220;Our entire team remains committed to ensuring that any development respects the local landscape and environment and is considerate of neighbors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a bit of irony, Gizmodo points out that Zuckerberg recently offered some unsolicited commentary on Trump\u2019s plan for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, saying: \u201cI hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as \u2018others.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re taking the wrong cues from Donald Trump. Mark Zuckberg\u2019s Hawaiian neighbors may be about to unfriend him in a major way. The Facebook CEO is causing a bit of an uproar with plans to build a massive wall around his property on Kauai. Construction on the \u201cdaunting and forbidding\u201d wall reportedly began a little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}