{"id":496,"date":"2014-02-04T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=496"},"modified":"2014-07-13T05:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T05:36:02","slug":"destined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"destined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor\u2019s Campaign documentary is an inspiring film that tells the story of a candidate running for city council and striving to help a local community address the issues of homelessness affecting the city of Santa Monica, Ca.\u00a0 Taylor is a great example of a social advocate who understands the hardships of homeless people experience while trying to survive and maintain stability in a city where no rights are honored to those that lack social services and employment.\u00a0 After watching this film it has inspired me to see life differently in different perspectives and value what I have.\u00a0 Taylor took us to an adventure to open up our hearts and minds of people living on the streets, and see the reality of the disadvantages homeless people face daily.<\/p>\n<p>One of the moments which struck me deeply was when one of the ladies from the homeless community was crying in desperation after being kicked out their space saying, \u201cwhere are we gonna go, we don\u2019t have nowhere to go..\u201d.\u00a0 These people have made their space a sustaining habitat, where they have adjusted to the streets, and work to maintain their habits and surviving possessions.\u00a0 However, public policies reinforce by the city council discourages homelessness, therefore it continues to be controversial issue that has people like Taylor fighting for social changes in the communities. In my opinion, instead of encouraging policies to deter homelessness, the cities need to address the causes of homelessness and provide necessary resources for the people in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor\u2019s Campaign documentary is an inspiring film that tells the story of a candidate running for city council and striving to help a local community address the issues of homelessness affecting the city of Santa Monica, Ca.\u00a0 Taylor is a great example of a social advocate who understands the hardships of homeless people experience while &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=496\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">destined<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-496","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\/s47OlK-destined","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}