{"id":9834,"date":"2022-06-27T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9834"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"more-than-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9834","title":{"rendered":"MORE THAN MONEY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember passing a homeless man on a city street one night \u2013 this was in Lexington Kentucky &#8211;\u00a0 and he looked at me and said, \u201cDo you have any money to spare for beer? I won\u2019t tell you I need money for food because I\u2019m being honest \u2013 I am going to spend it on beer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I appreciated his honesty, I did not give him any money.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opening a wallet or a purse is not always the easy solution to someone&#8217;s troubles that we &#8211; or they &#8211; hope for.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think one of the reasons we are so often reluctant to help the poor is that, deep down, we understand they need so much more than money.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember passing a homeless man on a city street one night \u2013 this was in Lexington Kentucky &#8211;\u00a0 and he looked at me and said, \u201cDo you have any money to spare for beer? I won\u2019t tell you I need money for food because I\u2019m being honest \u2013 I am going to spend it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9835,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}