{"id":578,"date":"2011-03-11T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=578"},"modified":"2011-03-11T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:48:00","slug":"homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve spent the winter volunteering at an outreach to the homeless in Atlanta. \u00a0 The last few days, Atlanta has experienced another cold snap and there has been a steady stream of people at our door for blankets, hats, gloves… \u00a0 One incident that particularly pulled at my heart strings was a middle age man, his wife and the man’s elderly mother (who was using a walker) asking for blankets. \u00a0 They, too, were homeless. \u00a0 According to statistics, there are some 15,000 homeless people in the Atlanta area alone. \u00a0 Meanwhile just north of here in the suburb of Buckhead, many people live in $150,000 to $500,000 homes, shop at the fancy malls, drive Lexus’s, eat three full meals a day and all kinds of snacks, have wide screen TVs… \u00a0 It’s such a glaring disparity. \u00a0 Dorothy Day, a Catholic Worker social activist, proposed every Christian have a “Christ Room” in their home for the homeless. \u00a0 And our family has taken that to heart. \u00a0 At our homes (or even apartments) over the years, we have reserved a room for the homeless. \u00a0 And when we get to D.C., I recently told the Amarillo Globe News<\/em>, we will reserve the Lincoln Bedroom for the homeless as well. \u00a0 Homeless people like the man, his wife and the mother I just met. Note:<\/strong> We are leaving on another campaign tour April 1 and are trying to raise donations for this. \u00a0 Those can be sent to: Joe<\/strong> Schriner Presidential Election Committee, c\/o The Open Door, 910 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA \u00a0 30306-4212<\/strong> \u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 I just gave a talk on homelessness here in Atlanta, with the help of my daughter Sarah. \u00a0 The beginning of that talk can be found at…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve spent the winter volunteering at an outreach to the homeless in Atlanta. \u00a0 The last few days, Atlanta has experienced another cold snap and there has been a steady stream of people at our door for blankets, hats, gloves… …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}