{"id":222,"date":"2025-12-03T18:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:40:52","slug":"regarding-growing-hostility-to-the-homeless-a-shame-opinion-09-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/politics\/regarding-growing-hostility-to-the-homeless-a-shame-opinion-09-24\/","title":{"rendered":"REGARDING: &#8220;Growing hostility to the homeless a shame&#8221; OPINION (09 24)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;10px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<div dir=\"ltr\"><i><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The truth remains <\/span><\/b><\/i><i><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">that very few are hostile to the homeless. But many are frustrated by the homeless. When a society allows <\/span><\/b><\/i><i style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">for the mentally ill, the drug addicts, the derelicts, and those who simply want to live on our public streets <\/span><\/b><\/i><i style=\"font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><b style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">for the past forty years, one becomes tired and frustrated at this immorality. Mr. Higgins has failed to<\/span><\/b><\/i><i style=\"font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><b style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> conceptualize this social issue in totality. He fails to mention the drain on public resources, the danger to\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/i><i style=\"font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><b style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">society, not to mention our moral responsibility in getting the downtrodden off our streets.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><i><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/i><i><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><i><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><i><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Daniel Smiechowski Bay Ho\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth remains that very few are hostile to the homeless. But many are frustrated by the homeless. When a society allows for the mentally ill, the drug addicts, the derelicts, and those who simply want to live on our public streets for the past forty years, one becomes tired and frustrated at this immorality. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspective-dan","category-open-letters-on-public-policy-submitted-to-san-diego-union-tribune","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}