{"id":6581,"date":"2010-10-05T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2011-08-30T13:39:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T19:39:17","slug":"homeless-man-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/homeless-man-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisiblepeople.tv\">Mark Horvath<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYXKaAzEJrk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>(I) Keep coming up with love but it&#8217;s so slashed and torn<br \/>\nWhy &#8211; why &#8211; why ?<br \/>\nLove love love love love<br \/>\nInsanity laughs under pressure we&#8217;re cracking<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t we give ourselves one more chance<br \/>\nWhy can&#8217;t we give love that one more chance<br \/>\nWhy can&#8217;t we give love give love give love give love give love give love give love give love give love<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause love&#8217;s such an old fashioned word<br \/>\n<strong>And love dares you to care for<br \/>\nThe people on the edge of the night<br \/>\nAnd love dares you to change our way of<br \/>\nCaring about ourselves<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>BTW &#8211; I&#8217;ll be speaking about this <em>crazy love<\/em> this coming Sunday at encounter in Waxahachie. Come join the discussion at 10:30 a.m. CST. If you can&#8217;t make it to Waxahachie Sunday morning you should be able to join in online &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/live.encounterthis.com\">live.encounterthis.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Mark tells me this man is not homeless. His name is Sky Soleil and he lives in Los Angeles. Mark wrote, &#8220;I think this is a cute video and it made me smile, but Sky should have been upfront about not really being homeless. being dishonest and using a gimmick to help a video get views sucks!&#8221; I agree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2: This is from the description on YouTube: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a performance meant to entertain and inspire.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to help&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/help-the-homeless-for-free\">http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/help-the-homel&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homelessness.change.org\/nonprofits\">http:\/\/homelessness.change.org\/nonpro&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I said this is a performance. I don&#8217;t want there to be any doubts about my situation. I am a performer. I have a roof over my head and I have yet to start my own family. But this video isn&#8217;t about me. This is for the men, women and children on our streets who don&#8217;t have bright green puppets on their hands. The people who aren&#8217;t always as easy to see. This is for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invisiblepeople.tv\/blog\/\">http:\/\/invisiblepeople.tv\/blog\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE 3: <a href=\"http:\/\/homelessness.change.org\/blog\/view\/kermit_speaks_up_about_homelessness_an_interview_with_overnight_activist_sky_soleil\">Change.org posted an interview with Sky Soleil<\/a>, the actor in the video. A great interview &#8211; worth reading. Shows how a simple act can really spur a lot of people to action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared by Mark Horvath: (I) Keep coming up with love but it&#8217;s so slashed and torn Why &#8211; why &#8211; why ? Love love love love love Insanity laughs under pressure we&#8217;re cracking Can&#8217;t we give ourselves one more chance Why can&#8217;t we give love that one more chance Why can&#8217;t we give &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/homeless-man-under-pressure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homeless man Under Pressure<\/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":[19],"tags":[643,1734,498,1599,2461,3848,3846,3847],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-homeless","tag-invisiblepeopletv","tag-love","tag-love-wins","tag-mark-horvath","tag-pressure","tag-queen","tag-under-pressure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","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=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}