{"id":15075,"date":"2009-09-20T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/parish_simulation_tries_to_present_a_taste_of_the_daily_challenges_of_pover\/"},"modified":"2009-09-20T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T16:00:44","slug":"parish_simulation_tries_to_present_a_taste_of_the_daily_challenges_of_pover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15075","title":{"rendered":"Parish Simulation tries to present a taste of the daily challenges of poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Eye-opening.&#8221; &#8220;Shocking.&#8221; &#8220;A wild scramble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those are some of the sentiments expressed Wednesday by participants in East Cooper Community Outreach&#8217;s poverty simulation exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The event was designed to expose people with stable incomes to the daily anxieties and challenges experienced by the poor.<\/p>\n<p>Participants were assembled into family groups, assigned roles (mother, father, child) and provided with a set of circumstances. The goal was simple: to survive.<\/p>\n<p>One &#8220;family&#8221; was comprised of a single mom, her boyfriend and a 1-year-old baby. Another included an out-of-work dad and rambunctious children. Another featured a dependent senior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2009\/sep\/20\/leaving-your-comfort-zone\">Read it all from the Faith and Values section of the local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Eye-opening.&#8221; &#8220;Shocking.&#8221; &#8220;A wild scramble.&#8221; Those are some of the sentiments expressed Wednesday by participants in East Cooper Community Outreach&#8217;s poverty simulation exercise. The event was designed to expose people with stable incomes to the daily anxieties and challenges experienced<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15075\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,54,184,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-parish-ministry","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}