{"id":245,"date":"2016-11-15T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/?p=245"},"modified":"2016-11-15T20:49:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:49:49","slug":"will-work-for-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/2016\/11\/15\/will-work-for-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Work For Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_271\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-271\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/austin-beer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Craft Beer (from Google Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/austin-beer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/austin-beer.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Craft Beer (from Google Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I moved to Austin, I was saddened by the homeless population residing within the city. However, after a few months of struggling through my first year of college, I became immune to the heartbreaking narratives scrawled on cardboard in sharpie. The most common tidbits were, \u201cAnything helps\u201d \/ \u201cGod Bless\u201d \/ \u201cU.S. Veteran\u201d and even the cliche, \u201cWill work for food\u201d. As a UT student, I thought I had seen every cardboard solicitation I ever needed to. But last Friday, at the stoplight of the southbound Riverside exit on 35, I saw a man, with a big smile on his face holding a sign that said: \u201cWhy lie \/ I need a beer\u201d. I chuckled and thought to myself, \u201cHey man, me too.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/m.popkey.co\/daa606\/DjgWr.gif\" alt=\"The entire population of Austin every Monday\" width=\"500\" height=\"249\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entire population of Austin every Monday (gif from Google Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When I moved to Austin, I was saddened by the homeless population residing within the city. However, after a few months of struggling through my first year of college, I became immune to the heartbreaking narratives scrawled on cardboard in sharpie. The most common tidbits were, \u201cAnything helps\u201d \/ \u201cGod Bless\u201d \/ \u201cU.S. Veteran\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}