{"id":251146,"date":"2017-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-jan-13\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T08:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-jan-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-jan-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor \u2014 Jan. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><\/u><strong>Made me cry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Re: \u201cSaving Lives: Urban Street Angels offer lifelines to homeless youth\u201d by editor Ken Williams, Vol. 8, Issue 26 or at <\/em><em>bit.ly\/2hMC93N.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just a note to thank you, Mr. Williams, for the very informative Uptown News \u2014 and especially for the article about the Urban Street Angels on the front cover.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The article was a heart-breaker \u2014 describing the lives of some of the homeless young people in our midst. Many of us who come from deeply dysfunctional backgrounds can get bogged down in our own story \u2014 far too often \u2014 even decades after the fact. But your story relating the love and hard work done by Jerry Troyer and Eric Lovett was so inspiring! By the end, when Mr. Lovett was told \u201cI love you\u201d by the young man he had helped so much \u2014 I was in tears.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s all continue to \u201cdo what we can, in our little corner of the cosmos,\u201d as my favorite Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Phyllis Hardin of Normal Heights via mail<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is our issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In America, up to 1.6 million youth experience homelessness each year. The statistics for LGBT homeless youth are even more shocking, as this group represents up to 40 percent all young people experiencing homelessness. Considering that LGBT youth represent an estimated 7 percent of the total youth population, these numbers are disproportionately high. While even a single young person without a home is one too many, the disparity of LGBT youth experiencing homelessness is unfathomable.<\/p>\n<p>Once they are out of their homes, LGBT youth are even more vulnerable. They are at a greater risk for victimization, unsafe sexual practices, and mental health issues than non-LGBT young people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Clarence Bills via our website, sduptownnews.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made me cry Re: \u201cSaving Lives: Urban Street Angels offer lifelines to homeless youth\u201d by editor Ken Williams, Vol. 8, Issue 26 or at bit.ly\/2hMC93N. Just a note to thank you, Mr. Williams, for the very informative Uptown News \u2014 and especially for the article about the Urban Street Angels on the front cover.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":251144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Letters to the editor \u2014 Jan. 13","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11593,11552,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}