{"id":4262,"date":"2009-01-12T01:18:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2009-01-15T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:03:43","slug":"slow-to-reject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/slow-to-reject\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow to reject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;as Faenza likes to tell his staff, the more times a person has been in jail, been arrested or beaten up, the more welcome he will be at the center.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We want this place to be very slow to reject anybody,&#8221; Faenza says. &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to be likable to deserve services. You can be aggravating and annoying and still deserve services&#8230;.They are not going to act grateful. But you can&#8217;t lecture. You can&#8217;t coerce. You can&#8217;t shame people.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This comes from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/2008-05-08\/news\/dallas-the-bridge-homeless-center-s-progressive-approach-may-actually-make-a-difference\/\">story about The Bridge<\/a> &#8211; a homeless shelter in Dallas. I hope my home, my community group, my tribe, my communities of faith are the same way. I would hate to know a homeless shelter is more welcoming than the Body of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as Faenza likes to tell his staff, the more times a person has been in jail, been arrested or beaten up, the more welcome he will be at the center. &#8220;We want this place to be very slow to reject anybody,&#8221; Faenza says. &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to be likable to deserve services. You can be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/slow-to-reject\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slow to reject<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[219,128,643,1599,1780],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections","tag-church","tag-dallas","tag-homeless","tag-love-wins","tag-the-bridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-16K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}