{"id":41675,"date":"2013-12-21T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_joy_of_the_unexpected-a_scruffy_vancouver_panhandler_is_not_who_you_th\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T21:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T21:25:17","slug":"the_joy_of_the_unexpected-a_scruffy_vancouver_panhandler_is_not_who_you_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41675","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of the unexpected&#8211;a Scruffy Vancouver panhandler is not Who you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yogi Omar was so strapped for cash that he nearly didn&#8217;t stop to help a scruffy panhandler who asked him for change on a downtown street corner just after midnight Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But just as he was about to walk away, something compelled him to turn around and offer the man food and clothing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to give him food more than anything else, really,&#8221; Omar, 30 said.<\/p>\n<p>He stopped in his tracks, though, when the man refused his offer of help \u201d\u201d and instead asked Omar what he could do for him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/Scruffy+Vancouver+panhandler+random+acts+kindness\/9311275\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yogi Omar was so strapped for cash that he nearly didn&#8217;t stop to help a scruffy panhandler who asked him for change on a downtown street corner just after midnight Thursday. But just as he was about to walk away,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41675\">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":[48,39,574,175,135,575,187,168,88,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-advent","category-anthropology","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-poverty","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41675","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=41675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}