{"id":8147,"date":"2022-10-02T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2022-10-02T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T16:25:44","slug":"reader-homeless-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/02\/reader-homeless-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader: Homeless Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This short note sent to me is a good reminder to us all just how meaningful a helping hand can be.  Shared with permission.<\/p>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<p>Homeless are people too. And yes you have to be mindful of the safe and unsafe personality. <\/p>\n<p>My son has been homeless. Not our choice. He is now always safe with us. <\/p>\n<p>We have many stories of kind people he met along his way. <\/p>\n<p>He never considered himself homeless as he said he \u201ceven has his own bedroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A couple in Williams Arizona called us and were worried about him. It was snowing and he was in swim trunks. The man gave him a coat. Later the couple had a motel and took him in for the night. Washed his clothes, ordered pizza for him and put him on the greyhound the next morning.<br \/>\nBeyond kindness.<\/p>\n<p>Many stories of kind people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short note sent to me is a good reminder to us all just how meaningful a helping hand can be. Shared with permission. = Homeless are people too. And yes you have to be mindful of the safe and unsafe personality. My son has been homeless. Not our choice. He is now always safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[632,2494,633,1136],"class_list":["post-8147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-help","tag-homelessness","tag-service","tag-seva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8148,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions\/8148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}