{"id":756,"date":"2018-05-02T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dremadeoraich.com\/dremadeoraich\/?p=756"},"modified":"2018-05-02T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:10:14","slug":"humanity-reflected-in-a-homeless-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dremadeoraich.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/humanity-reflected-in-a-homeless-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity Reflected in a Homeless Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

My essay \u201cDancing Man,\u201d in which I discuss the humanity reflected in a homeless man, was accepted by Across the Margin<\/a>. It\u2019s a true story, a memory of my encounter with a joyous street person who left an indelible mark on my heart, on my soul.<\/p>\n

I see people on the streets all the time, carrying half a dozen bedraggled shopping bags, shuffling along the sidewalks, sometimes riding a bike (they\u2019re the fortunate ones, I think) while laden with clearly heavy backpacks and a number of other packages\u2013all their worldly belongings on their backs. I often wonder what brought them to this state. I\u2019ve read others\u2019 stories of how they lived one paycheck away from eviction every damn day. I\u2019ve known people like that. But my own circumstances have never, thankfully, grown that dire. I often wonder how I would fare. The answers my brain feeds to those questions are not encouraging.<\/p>\n

The point is, it could happen. To almost any one of us. Dancing Man taught me to not look away. He, and all the others like him, are as human as I am. The least I can do is acknowledge that fact.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My essay \u201cDancing Man,\u201d in which I discuss the humanity reflected in a homeless man, was accepted by Across the Margin. It\u2019s a true story, a memory of my encounter with a joyous street person who left an indelible mark on my heart, on my soul. I see people on the streets all the time,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-social-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n0kX-cc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6223,"url":"https:\/\/www.dremadeoraich.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/service-model\/","url_meta":{"origin":756,"position":0},"title":"Service Model","author":"DremaDeoraich","date":"July 13, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Adrian Tchaikovsky \u00a9 2024, Tor Books 373 Pages ISBN 13: 978-1250290298 As I\u2019ve come to expect from any Adrian Tchaikovsky book I read, Service Model was brilliant. 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