{"id":2564,"date":"2012-05-05T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/blog\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2019-04-12T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T02:02:20","slug":"mohammad-homeless-chicago-sobcon","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/videos\/mohammad-homeless-chicago-sobcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few times in my travels I have run into the same homeless friend. It&#8217;s kind of a mixed feeling. I&#8217;m happy to see someone I know, yet saddened that in a years time we could not get one person off the streets.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/2011\/04\/mohamed-homeless-chicago-sobcon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I first met Mohammed<\/a> it was a cold and rainy Chicago night. Now almost a year later he is still panhandling in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed is missing an arm. He was shot six times while gang banging and spent some time in jail. He says God has given him a second chance on life. Even with disability, Mohammed doesn&#8217;t qualify for SSI because they say he can work. But let&#8217;s be real here. Who is going to give a one-armed homeless man with a criminal past a job?<\/p>\n<p>Since Illinois does not pay general relief Mohammed&#8217;s only income is panhandling. In the three hours before this interview, he made a quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[302,268,230],"tags":[303,749,253,515,508,507,304,509],"coauthors":[7336],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/2564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}