{"id":57238,"date":"2017-01-31T05:01:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_these_booths_are_made_for_talking_soothers_hit_the_streets\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T05:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T05:01:27","slug":"nyt_these_booths_are_made_for_talking_soothers_hit_the_streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57238","title":{"rendered":"NYT: These Booths Are Made For Talking: Soothers Hit the Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week after the presidential election, while walking through the farmers\u2019 market in Union Square, I came across a young woman giving out free hugs to strangers. I gladly accepted one. Balm.<\/p>\n<p>A day later, a friend told me that a Lutheran pastor on the Upper East Side has been dispensing free counsel on the sidewalk on Tuesday mornings while sitting in a wooden booth that he had made to the exact specifications of Lucy\u2019s in the comic strip \u201cPeanuts,\u201d\u009d complete with a sign reading, \u201cSpiritual Help, 5 cents. The pastor is in.\u201d\u009d (Nickels are provided.)<\/p>\n<p>Street preachers. Huggers without portfolio. If stores and restaurants can pop up, why can\u2019t the helping professions?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/28\/fashion\/these-booths-are-made-for-talking-soothers-hit-the-streets.html?_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after the presidential election, while walking through the farmers\u2019 market in Union Square, I came across a young woman giving out free hugs to strangers. I gladly accepted one. Balm. A day later, a friend told me that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57238\">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":[39,50,209,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57238","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=57238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}