{"id":314,"date":"2006-08-15T14:57:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=314"},"modified":"2006-08-15T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T14:57:56","slug":"selling-candies-on-nyc-subways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Selling Candies on NYC Subways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Ladies and Gentlemen, I am not selling money for no basketball team. I am just trying to stay off the streets and raise a little cash...&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who's lived under the NYC public transportation system (MTA-subways) would be familiar with the above line.<\/p>\n<p>I remember there's a post ad in the subway warning passengers not to give donation on the subway, because if they could spare $2 entrance fee, their intention is very much business investment type, using the name of donation.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen one who seemed to be of African-American male, asking for donation, and when he was ignored, he angrily responded &quot;You either Give or don't Give&quot; Obviously trying to twist the meaning of COMPASSION with DEBT.<\/p>\n<p>We must have compassion, but for the sake of Truth, Christ. Nothing else. Be wise.<\/p>\n<p>I would usually give on the streets, but not in the subways or anywhere that seems like an investment to these people.<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Ladies and Gentlemen, I am not selling money for no basketball team. I am just trying to stay off the streets and raise a little cash...&quot; Anyone who's lived under the NYC public transportation system (MTA-subways) would be familiar with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}