{"id":41524,"date":"2013-12-12T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/homelessness_hunger_still_an_issue_in_charleston_south_carolina_new_report_\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T19:00:03","slug":"homelessness_hunger_still_an_issue_in_charleston_south_carolina_new_report_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41524","title":{"rendered":"Homelessness, hunger still an issue in Charleston, South Carolina, new report states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Please note the headline above is from the Internet edition of the story, the print edition uses &#8220;Hundreds hungry, homeless in city&#8221; as its headline&#8211;KSH)><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One hundred and fifty-six people slept here last night,&#8221; said Amy Zeigler, vice president for development at the Crisis Ministries shelter on Meeting Street. &#8220;And the reality is that 156 people will be sleeping here tonight&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of providing meals to the hungry in Charleston, access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food still remains a factor. And the Lowcountry Food Bank reported that difficulties in food delivery could arise even further as the climate of federal cutbacks continues to be fought in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP and formerly known as the federal food stamp program, is part of the philosophical battleground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20131210\/PC16\/131219871\/1177\/homelessness-hunger-still-an-issue-in-charleston-new-report-states\">Read it all<\/a> from the front page of the local paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Please note the headline above is from the Internet edition of the story, the print edition uses &#8220;Hundreds hungry, homeless in city&#8221; as its headline&#8211;KSH)> &#8220;One hundred and fifty-six people slept here last night,&#8221; said Amy Zeigler, vice president for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41524\">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":[39,40,54,175,615,168,151,88,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-city-government","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524","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=41524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}