{"id":3536,"date":"2013-06-01T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/blog\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2019-03-27T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:16:23","slug":"robert-homeless-nickelsville-seattle","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/videos\/robert-homeless-nickelsville-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met Robert on a rainy day in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickelsville.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nickelsville<\/a>, a tent community near downtown Seattle. Actually, I was introduced to Robert by someone who suggested his gardening skills would make a good story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard being homeless&#8221;, Robert says while he explains to me that Nickelsville is a &#8220;step up&#8221; from the streets. Robert says that when you&#8217;re homeless people look down on you and they think everyone is an alcoholic or drug addict when the truth is some people just had a bad break in life.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many things homeless services can learn from tent communities is that kicking people out during the day is not a solution to ending homelessness. I wrote a little about that here: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/2013\/05\/homeless-services-we-can-do-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homeless Services: We Can Do Better<\/a>.<br \/>\nRobert loves flowers. In the short time, he has called Nickelsville home he has transformed the ground by his tent into a flourishing garden. Completely unplanned, Robert takes me on a short tour of his garden, which ends with a small tree he is trying to save. Robert says the tree represents Nickelsville trying to grow straight up.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy meeting Robert as much as I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[306,230,305,295],"tags":[253,515,508,507,307,509],"coauthors":[7336],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/3536"}],"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=3536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}