{"id":308,"date":"2016-11-15T20:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/?p=308"},"modified":"2016-11-15T20:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:47:26","slug":"panhandling-vignette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/2016\/11\/15\/panhandling-vignette\/","title":{"rendered":"Panhandling Vignette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey man, you got any change?&#8221; I hardly even notice the grimy homeless man with his hand out as I walk past him on Guad. I&#8217;ve grown so accustomed to the street beggars that they&#8217;ve merely become a part of the background noise of Austin, along with the car horns and people handing out flyers. Though we have no idea what circumstances led these people to a life on the streets, we tend to suspect the worst in their intentions and keep our money. Suddenly a young Middle Eastern man approaches the beggar, holding a brown paper bag. &#8220;Here,&#8221; he says, &#8220;I bought you a gyro.&#8221; The homeless man looked taken aback, as if offended. &#8220;I&#8217;m not eating this garbage!&#8221; Wow. I guess beggars can be choosers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_319\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-319\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/homeless-man-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"panhandler with sign\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/homeless-man-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/homeless-man.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">homeless man from google images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey man, you got any change?&#8221; I hardly even notice the grimy homeless man with his hand out as I walk past him on Guad. I&#8217;ve grown so accustomed to the street beggars that they&#8217;ve merely become a part of the background noise of Austin, along with the car horns and people handing out flyers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","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\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}