{"id":23913,"date":"2016-08-13T20:27:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23913"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:27:12","slug":"homeless-and-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/homeless-and-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless and Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-frame-front-door-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A frame front door\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-frame-front-door-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-frame-front-door.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(one of the many places I have called home)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lived in many places<br \/>\nThree countries I&#8217;ve called home<br \/>\nBut I was always restless<br \/>\na Gypsy..born to roam<\/p>\n<p>A few times I&#8217;ve been homeless<br \/>\nbut never on the street<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t remember going hungry<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had shoes for my bare feet<\/p>\n<p>We cannot know the troubles<br \/>\nthat caused the homeless man<br \/>\nto live beneath the city bridge<br \/>\nor in an old abandoned van<\/p>\n<p>what woman wants to raise her kids<br \/>\nin a torn and tattered tent?<br \/>\nOr feed them from the food bank<br \/>\nbecause she can&#8217;t pay rent<\/p>\n<p>These we call &#8220;unfortunate&#8221;<br \/>\nwe pass judgement on their lot<br \/>\nwhat happened to this Child of God<br \/>\nthe World may have forgot<\/p>\n<p>If we listened to their stories<br \/>\nof what broke them on their way<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d find surprising reasons<br \/>\nfor not all have gone astray<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re called to be their Brother<br \/>\nor their Sister and to care<br \/>\nIf by God&#8217;s Grace we&#8217;ve plenty<br \/>\nwe have something we can share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(one of the many places I have called home) I&#8217;ve lived in many places Three countries I&#8217;ve called home But I was always restless a Gypsy..born to roam A few times I&#8217;ve been homeless but never on the street I don&#8217;t remember going hungry I&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23913"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24594,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23913\/revisions\/24594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}