{"id":3211,"date":"2012-01-11T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2012-01-11T01:56:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:56:07","slug":"homeless-people-wandering-through-the-streets-of-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/homeless-people-wandering-through-the-streets-of-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless people wandering through the streets of Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was doing my relief work in a partially flooded-Bangkok, I met a homeless elderly woman sitting on a bench at 4:17 am. Her two heavy sacks was filled with dirty clothes, her face was masked with pure exhaustion, and she fiddled with an empty bottle. I offered her my flask, but she graciously declined with a smile, and in English, said she had to walk the path Fate had set for her. <\/p>\n<p>Within her eyes burned a desire to survive. She did not lose her home due to the enraged flood, she lost it because of society&#8217;s prejudice and ignorance. Apathy has forced her into homelessness for two years. The heavy flood was merely an eye-opener for people living in Bangkok and many provinces in Thailand; but did anyone see those without a home before the flood? Has society changed its behaviour towards homeless people?<\/p>\n<p>This woman had fought horrors that would have crushed the elites of the city and the spirit of any common man.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmoui.net%2Fblog%2F2012%2F01%2Fhomeless-people-wandering-through-the-streets-of-bangkok%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was doing my relief work in a partially flooded-Bangkok, I met a homeless elderly woman sitting on a bench at 4:17 am. Her two heavy sacks was filled with dirty clothes, her face was masked with pure exhaustion, and she fiddled with an empty bottle. I offered her my flask, but she graciously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,210,96],"tags":[243,137,398,416,260,417,187],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-disaster","category-living","tag-zashnain","tag-bangkok","tag-floods","tag-homelessness","tag-poverty","tag-survival","tag-thailand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"3":{"name":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"210":{"name":"Disaster","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/disaster\/"},"96":{"name":"Living","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/living\/"}},"tags_names":{"243":{"name":"@Zashnain","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/zashnain\/"},"137":{"name":"Bangkok","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/bangkok\/"},"398":{"name":"floods","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/floods\/"},"416":{"name":"homelessness","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/homelessness\/"},"260":{"name":"poverty","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/poverty\/"},"417":{"name":"survival","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/survival\/"},"187":{"name":"Thailand","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/thailand\/"}},"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmP7-PN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}