{"id":511,"date":"2007-05-10T07:04:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T12:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/1178798689508.html"},"modified":"2007-05-10T07:04:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T12:04:49","slug":"blogentry-homeless-get-their-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Homeless Get Their Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, well, there&#039;s certainly room to be a little conflicted on this story about <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.morinfamily.com:8888\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/1178678444621.html&#034;>a deathrow inmate&#039;s desire that his last meal be given to the homeless<\/a>.  He wanted a vegetarian pizza delivered to &#034;any homeless person nearby.&#034;  The problem is that the prison said they wouldn&#039;t honor the request because they &#034;don&#039;t donate to charity.&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>Well that apparently pissed off more people than just me, because <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/05\/09\/execution.pizza\/index.html&#034;>$1200 worth of pizza was delivered to local homeless shelters<\/a> by  members of the community.  Good for them.  I particularly like the quote from one of the workers at the shelter who said that his reaction was, quote, &#034;Wow, Jesus!&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>At the top I said &#034;much to be conflicted about&#034; because let&#039;s face it, the guy (who has now been executed) did kill a cop.  So it&#039;s not like he&#039;s a nice, upstanding member of society.  And if, for his last meal, he&#039;d said &#034;Screw you, go give it to the homeless for all I care&#034; then I would see the prison&#039;s position.  But that&#039;s apparently not how it happened.  So just because this guy is a bad guy, why punish him by depriving the homeless of food?<\/p>\n<p\/>This news story actually worked out for the best, since the prison&#039;s rules require that a last meal be worth at most $20.  Thus far it looks like close to 100x that much has been donated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, well, there&#039;s certainly room to be a little conflicted on this story about a deathrow inmate&#039;s desire that his last meal be given to the homeless. He wanted a vegetarian pizza delivered to &#034;any homeless person nearby.&#034; The problem is that the prison said they wouldn&#039;t honor the request because they &#034;don&#039;t donate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}