{"id":531,"date":"2004-02-02T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-02T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=531"},"modified":"2004-02-02T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-02T09:00:42","slug":"homelessness-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/homelessness-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Homelessness revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back <a href=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/archives\/000810.html\">I posted links<\/a> to the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/gate\/special\/pages\/2003\/homeless\/\">series on homelessness<\/a>. This morning somebody posted a rambling-but-moving reply to that post in the comments area.<br \/>\nExcerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had been searching for my old very good friend for almost 30 years.   &#8230;.<br \/>\n<BR><BR>In my mind I could picture my friend married with children and maybe having a nice home somewhere but instead I was in for the heartache of a lifetime.<br \/>\nMy friend was living as a homeless woman in the streets of San Francisco.  &#8230;.<br \/>\n<BR><BR>It all could happen to anyone. I never in my wildest dreams ever imagined my friend a homeless junkie pushing a cart, holding a sign asking for money, having hiv, and everything else that goes with this &#8220;Homeless Disease.&#8221; I call it that because I see it like that -a disease.  &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><BR>One thing before I go &#8211; my friend who is out there in San Francisco was on her way to the olympics in gymnastics, also a great cheerleader, very pretty, mascot of her schools cheerleading team, homecoming queen, and much more. Homelessness doesn&#8217;t discriminate!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I posted links to the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s series on homelessness. This morning somebody posted a rambling-but-moving reply to that post in the comments area. Excerpts: I had been searching for my old very good friend&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/homelessness-revisited\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}