{"id":23136,"date":"2010-08-31T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23136"},"modified":"2010-08-31T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T20:32:00","slug":"friends-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23136","title":{"rendered":"Friends In Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rodger Jacobs writes for the Las Vegas Sun<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nAs I write this, taking a brief late night respite from packing books into boxes, I am just days away from an uncertain future, a Black Tuesday when the Sword of Damocles will, under legal edict, fall upon my head; and, as the ancient Greek and Roman tale of Dionysius and Damocles urges, I invite you to walk a mile in my shoes for a few brief moments.<\/p>\n

Within a matter of days I am going to become one of the more than 13,000 homeless people living in Clark County and, frankly, I am frightened.<\/p>\n

I am a 51-year-old professional writer; throughout my 20-year career I have been an award-winning feature documentary producer (\u201cWadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes\u201d and multiple educational documentaries), a trade and arts magazine journalist, a successful playwright (\u201cGo Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller\u201d), a true crime author and a literary event producer. For the past two years, I have enjoyed my role as a book and literature columnist for Pop Matters, a popular online journal of cultural criticism. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heshy Fried posts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

God decided that my car would die on top of Glacier Point road in Yosemite. I was able to coast down the hill in neutral while listening to Mike\u2019s Song (Phish) and wondering how in earth I would get to have a Shabbos if I was stranded in Yosemite without cell reception.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of the hill at the intersection I spotted a payphone \u2014 serious hashgacha pratis, my friends. I was in full blown gam zu altova mode, which may have been spurred on by the 36 mile solo hike I just completed in one of the least visited portions of the park. I consulted with the Lord in the woods and decided that everything was all part of the master plan and indeed it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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