{"id":2067,"date":"2018-02-04T23:09:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T23:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2018-07-31T21:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T21:23:42","slug":"trying-to-understand-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Understand Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This week resulted in a number of perspectives on the homeless community.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Each book report brought to light the same message.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The homelessness community is not what we normally expect.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That we, as a society, have to remember that just because they live out on the street or in shelters that they are human too. They experience the same things as we do.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They have just been dealt a different and harder hand then we have.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The book that I read focused on the homelessness community of women who live in shelters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Each woman experienced a different reason as to being there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Each woman was either stuck in a cycle or an unfortunate incident resulted into becoming homeless.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The book made me reflect on a number of things.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is easy for us to forget what is actually going on in the world.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The homelessness issue in this country seems to be something that is brushed under the rug.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It seems as if we try to hide the homelessness community rather than trying to figure out how to help.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There are those out there who are trying to make an effort in combating homelessness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their efforts should not go unnoticed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We should, however, encourage more to realize the issue at hand.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The homelessness community needs help and sympathy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They should not be seen as a stereotype.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Understanding their stories and trying to find ways in which we can help is the first step that we can take in helping the homelessness community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week resulted in a number of perspectives on the homeless community.\u00a0 Each book report brought to light the same message.\u00a0 The homelessness community is not what we normally expect.\u00a0 That we, as a society, have to remember that just because they live out on the street or in shelters that they are human too. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=2067\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trying to Understand Homelessness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-xl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}