{"id":20887,"date":"2017-12-24T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/24\/at-christmas-families-on-the-edge-of-homelessness-must-choose-gifts-or-rent\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T12:00:50","slug":"at-christmas-families-on-the-edge-of-homelessness-must-choose-gifts-or-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20887","title":{"rendered":"At Christmas, families on the edge of homelessness must choose: gifts or rent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those living hand to mouth, the holiday season brings added stress: \u2018Every time you get an extra penny, something comes along that costs a nickel more\u2019Sign up to our monthly Outside in America newsletterA pile of assorted Christmas cards, decorated with snowmen, Santa and the baby Jesus, sits gathering dust in Sepia Coleman\u2019s dresser drawer. This year, the 46-year-old grandmother won\u2019t have the money for stamps to send them out. Instead Coleman, a home healthcare worker in Memphis, who works three different jobs at wages that hover around $8.50 an hour, will care for patients on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in hopes of earning enough money to stave off eviction. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/dec\/24\/christmas-homeless-gifts-rent-bills\" target=\"_blank\">At Christmas, families on the edge of homelessness must choose: gifts or rent?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those living hand to mouth, the holiday season brings added stress: \u2018Every time you get an extra penny, something comes along that costs a nickel more\u2019Sign up to our monthly Outside in America newsletterA pile of assorted Christmas cards, decorated with snowmen, Santa and the baby Jesus, sits gathering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}