{"id":89734,"date":"2020-02-19T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89734"},"modified":"2020-02-18T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:31:03","slug":"mirror-the-rev-paul-nicolson-im-an-87-year-old-vicar-but-when-i-acted-homeless-i-was-suddenly-invisible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89734","title":{"rendered":"(Mirror) The Rev. Paul Nicolson&#8211;&#8216;I&#8217;m an 87-year-old vicar &#8211; but when I acted homeless, I was suddenly invisible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While several people entering or leaving Church House stopped for a chat, most walked by as if I was not there.<\/p>\n<p>That invisibility while lying on the pavement must be very depressing for long term street homeless people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a314.38 was put into my mug which I gave to one of the three street homeless people begging outside Tottenham who I pass on my journey home. I am planning another session in the role of beggar opposite Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/im-87-year-old-vicar-21515391\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Vicar who played the role of a homeless man, to &#8216;get a taste&#8217; of what it was like being homeless: most people ignored him.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good to see someone from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/church?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#church<\/a> taking a more active role in highlighting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/homelessness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#homelessness<\/a>:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yEbNUCuFuy\">https:\/\/t.co\/yEbNUCuFuy<\/a><br \/>\nJesus would care, surely.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina (@55krissi55) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/55krissi55\/status\/1229461166377795586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While several people entering or leaving Church House stopped for a chat, most walked by as if I was not there. That invisibility while lying on the pavement must be very depressing for long term street homeless people. \u00a314.38 was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89734\">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":[199,435,184,88,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-poverty","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89734","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=89734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89737,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89734\/revisions\/89737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}