{"id":1408,"date":"2009-08-11T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2009-08-11T19:05:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T19:05:36","slug":"shelters-for-homeless-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"Shelters for Homeless in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI should have thought deeper and sent a rather homeless young lady to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homelessshelterdirectory.org\/newyork.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Shelters\">homeless shelter <\/a>when she approached me today for money in Bryant Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPeople were staring, obviously wondering why such a young and not-bad looking white lady begging from table to table in the park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen I was approached, I did what I do best. She asked me for money for food. So I said, I will buy you a sandwitch now (which is the closest food shop in the park). Then she replied I want money for food and a place to stay. I realized something's wrong, and answered her, &quot;I cannot help you then&quot;, she said &quot;thank you&quot;, and I left.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMaybe if I hadn't been occupying my mind with haste, for I was heading to the Research Library. I would have had better choices at hand. And I could hardly concentrate on John Calvin's sermons upon 2nd Samuel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf we dedicate ourselves to help those in need; perhaps the greatest burden is that we have to wisely deal with the slothful ones.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI couldn't help wondering what more I could have done as I remember her walking away behind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have thought deeper and sent a rather homeless young lady to a homeless shelter when she approached me today for money in Bryant Park. People were staring, obviously wondering why such a young and not-bad looking white lady &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1408\">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-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}