{"id":5754,"date":"2013-12-02T17:11:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/?p=5754"},"modified":"2014-03-05T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:57:29","slug":"shanes-story-the-generosity-of-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/02\/shanes-story-the-generosity-of-a-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane&#8217;s Story: The Generosity of a Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-27d5946e-b4cc-8b2d-c23c-579854167f23\" class=\"lead\">When interviewing the people who frequent SoulFood Books we always ask, \u201cWhat is special about this place?\u201d.\u00a0 The most common answer is, \u201cI can be myself\u201d.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/80511915\" height=\"366\" width=\"650\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recently I saw a young guy in the back of the cafe soldering something and walked over to see what he was doing. \u00a0He explained that he was making an LED light that would change color when it was tilted from one side to the other. \u00a0I noticed that he had a roller cart next to him with a sleeping bag, various clothes, and an iPad with cracked glass. \u00a0I came to find out his name was Shane and he was homeless. \u00a0I thought to myself many coffee shops wouldn\u2019t allow the homeless to hang out, much less work with soldering irons on their tables.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As I was talking with him he just happened to mention that a total stranger he had struck up a conversation with a few hours earlier had written him a check for $1,000. \u00a0Shane\u2019s story is just one testament to the how exceptional the SoulFood community is!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When interviewing the people who frequent SoulFood Books we always ask, \u201cWhat is special about this place?\u201d.\u00a0 The most common answer is, \u201cI can be myself\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[523,501],"tags":[124,601,547,546],"class_list":["post-5754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ch-5-importance-of-community","category-crazywise","tag-community","tag-crazywise","tag-shane","tag-soulfood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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