{"id":1325,"date":"2014-12-06T01:19:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T01:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2017-10-14T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T20:00:00","slug":"christmas-card-to-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/christmas-card-to-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Card to the Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every homeless person is something to somebody. This was the Jonathan Corrie story >>><\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Jonathan<\/a>
Jonathan Corrie – the homeless dead on the streets is no longer news as we head into winter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than a face, you have a name,
\nyou settle down to sleep<\/p>\n

I up my pace, to my shame,
\nas a wide berth of you I keep<\/p>\n

That is your place, to which you came,
\nwhere cold shadows creep<\/p>\n

Tonight’s base, no one you blame,
\nas to slumbers yourself you weep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every homeless person is something to somebody. This was the Jonathan Corrie story >>> More than a face, you have a name, you settle down to sleep I up my pace, to my shame, as a wide berth of you I keep That is your place, to which you came, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,55,475,155],"tags":[358,1495,1496,1435,1491],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-dander-in-dublin","category-death","tag-christmas","tag-drug-addiction","tag-heroin","tag-homeless","tag-jonathan-corrie","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-ln","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1271,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/christ-was-crucified-in-dublin\/","url_meta":{"origin":1325,"position":0},"title":"Christ Was Crucified In Dublin","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"2nd December 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As if once more nailed to a cross In Dublin, Christ was crucified Where on a street beside the D\u00e1il The least of his slept and died. 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