{"id":41550,"date":"2015-06-26T02:07:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T07:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=41550"},"modified":"2015-07-01T02:13:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T07:13:22","slug":"i-doubled-back-past-a-panhandler-and-got-blessed-by-an-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-doubled-back-past-a-panhandler-and-got-blessed-by-an-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"I doubled back past a panhandler and got blessed by an angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to double back past a panhandler today on US1 &#8220;<em>Hungry, everything helps<\/em>&#8221; his sign said. I see a lot of the local corner workers and hadn&#8217;t seen him before. I know some are professional panhandlers and some really in need &#8212; it&#8217;s not for me to judge.\u00a0 As I came upon him for the second time, I was led to pull into the next parking lot and run into Subway to buy him a sandwich and a bottle of water and went back by and gave it to him as I was stopped at the light. I was stoked he stepped right back into the shade opening the sandwich. I wouldn&#8217;t have taken it personally had he not. A gift is a gift. I felt I was blessed by an angel today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-doubled-back-past-a-panhandler-and-got-blessed-by-an-angel\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=I doubled back past a panhandler and got blessed by an angel&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-doubled-back-past-a-panhandler-and-got-blessed-by-an-angel\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-doubled-back-past-a-panhandler-and-got-blessed-by-an-angel\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-doubled-back-past-a-panhandler-and-got-blessed-by-an-angel\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=I%20doubled%20back%20past%20a%20panhandler%20and%20got%20blessed%20by%20an%20angel&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-doubled-back-past-a-panhandler-and-got-blessed-by-an-angel\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to double back past a panhandler today on US1 &#8220;Hungry, everything helps&#8221; his sign said. I see a lot of the local corner workers and hadn&#8217;t seen him before. I know some are professional panhandlers and some really in need &#8212; it&#8217;s not for me to judge.\u00a0 As I came upon him for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41551,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41550\/revisions\/41551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}