{"id":3037,"date":"2013-03-17T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/blog\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2018-10-06T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T00:12:01","slug":"joshua-homeless-austin-texas-sxsw","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/videos\/joshua-homeless-austin-texas-sxsw\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first met Joshua during a <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/2013\/03\/09\/sxsw-get-ready-for-street-treats-because-helping-people-is-delicious\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Street Treats vendor training<\/a> the day before the launch at this year&#8217;s SXSW. I had just assumed all of the homeless people in the program were &#8220;sheltered homeless&#8221;, but I was wrong. Joshua sleeps in a tent!<\/p>\n<p>As you can tell by his smile, Joshua is excited to have the opportunity to make a few bucks and meet some new people.<\/p>\n<p>Normally Joshua survives by food hand-outs from homeless shelters. Joshua said with the money he will make that day he&#8217;s going to grab some fast food and a hotel room with air conditioning. Before you judge, in his shoes, you&#8217;d probably do the same thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StreetTreatsATX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Street Treats<\/a> is an amazing program and I encourage all of you in homeless services to think of creative ways we can empower our homeless friends to generate revenue and create purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[248,230,405],"tags":[337,253,515,508,507,509],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/3037"}],"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=3037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}