{"id":6938,"date":"2021-04-16T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T13:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:11:59","slug":"splayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/splayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Splayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A young Black man was asleep, splayed on the concrete in front of a pharmacy. He was halfway out of his sleeping bag and surrounded by meager possessions, including a box of Ritz crackers and two bottles of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I passed by him and entered the pharmacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was an overcast afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I shopped and bought wine, tacks and three rolls of film. I left the pharmacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside, an elderly White man was placing bottled water and a box of Ritz crackers next to the splayed man. He didn&#8217;t disturb him with talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I passed this gesture and walked toward my car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I turned back and saw the White man open the door of his luxury SUV. He drove away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I felt some hope rise within me. There is so little with this issue, and I kept thinking I want to get into this game and help. I have skills that could help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Black man was asleep, splayed on the concrete in front of a pharmacy. He was halfway out of his sleeping bag and surrounded by meager possessions, including a box of Ritz crackers and two bottles of water. I passed by him and entered the pharmacy. It was an overcast afternoon. I shopped and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10539,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions\/10539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}