{"id":50,"date":"2011-09-19T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arroya.org\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-10-09T00:24:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T07:24:21","slug":"burn-guy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Burn Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several readers have asked about the burn victim that I spoke of in my first posting.\u00a0 Here is the story:<\/p>\n<p>This fellow is not a migrant.\u00a0 He is a local homeless man, mentally ill, who lives hand to mouth.\u00a0 He sleeps in the cemetery.\u00a0 This man is vulnerable to attack, and was assaulted by local thugs who poured tequila and lighter fluid on him.\u00a0 Some say battery acid.\u00a0 The stories are always confusing and blurred at the clinica.\u00a0 He was hospitalized and survived this horrific attack.\u00a0 I have not seen him since that day in the clinic when the nurse was doing her best to treat his extensive burns.<\/p>\n<p>There is evil in the world.\u00a0 There is good in the world.\u00a0 And there is a LOT of work to be done on the planet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arroya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/arroya.org\/2011\/09\/free-of-violence1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51\" title=\"free of violence\" src=\"http:\/\/arroya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/arroya.org\/2011\/09\/free-of-violence1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/free-of-violence1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/free-of-violence1.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;I have the right to live a life free of violence&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several readers have asked about the burn victim that I spoke of in my first posting.\u00a0 Here is the story: This fellow is not a migrant.\u00a0 He is a local homeless man, mentally ill, who lives hand to mouth.\u00a0 He sleeps in the cemetery.\u00a0 This man is vulnerable to attack, and was assaulted by local [&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-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arroya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}