{"id":4019,"date":"2013-09-29T19:21:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T02:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/blog\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2018-10-06T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T18:40:23","slug":"lisa-and-lexus-homeless-hotel-missouri","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/videos\/lisa-and-lexus-homeless-hotel-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa and Lexus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa, and her daughter Lexus, are the face of homelessness you don&#8217;t normally see, but you need to see!<\/p>\n<p>After trying to stay with family, Lisa had to return to Missouri for medical reasons. Pregnant and unable to work, after resources ran out, Lisa and Lexus ended up in a weekly rate hotel in Wentzville, just outside of St Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Low and no income families living in weekly-rate hotels are a serious crisis. Lisa and Lexus were lucky to find a good hotel through the support of Paul Kruze, but even though this hotel is a little better than most, it&#8217;s still no place to raise kids.<\/p>\n<p>Although she was pinching hard, Lexus was so cute trying to play videographer, I had to take a photo to share with you all:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-lexus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4020 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-lexus-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo-lexus\" width=\"385\" height=\"288\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-lexus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-lexus-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firststepbackhome.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Kruse<\/a>, who helps these families every single day of the year.<\/address>\n<p><em>This Invisible People road trip is made possible by\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenly.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sevenly<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmobileusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virgin Mobile USA<\/a>, who are partnering to end youth homelessness through Virgin Mobile USA\u2019s initiative, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmobileusa.com\/virgin-mobile-life\/regeneration-past-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RE*Generation<\/a>. For more information <a href=\"http:\/\/invppl.tv\/regen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please click here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[236,875,402,513,292,401],"tags":[524,253,515,508,507,511,518,509],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/4019"}],"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=4019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}