{"id":82,"date":"2024-04-23T19:35:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2024-05-01T21:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:18:33","slug":"kbhj","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/index.php\/kbhj\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirrelle: Mom of the Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SHIRRELLE: Mom of the Block<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shirrelle on the Streets\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kWeARyPXSAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shirrelle is your unorthodox unhoused woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has a job: She works as a family caregiver for her mother and gets paid by the state of California. She has a place to live: She has her own room in her mother&#8217;s apartment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she chooses to live on the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no rules. There&#8217;s no one to answer to. There&#8217;s nothing you owe to anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shirrelle doesn&#8217;t see the streets as a place of suffering. It&#8217;s the place where she found herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shirrelle has tried to kill herself multiple times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have been suicidal since I was 15. I swallowed every pill you can imagine,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I had my son&#8217;s father&#8217;s gun one day&#8230; And I was about to put it to my head, but he came and snatched it out of my hand&#8230; I hated him. I wouldn&#8217;t even speak to him because I felt like he made me stay here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s been diagnosed as bipolar and depressed, and she is a self-proclaimed drug addict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For her, staying home with her mom isn&#8217;t a safe option \u2014 it&#8217;s a restricting prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHIRRELLE: Mom of the Block Shirrelle is your unorthodox unhoused woman. She has a job: She works as a family caregiver for her mother and gets paid by the state of California. She has a place to live: She has her own room in her mother&#8217;s apartment. But she chooses to live on the streets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/mntsai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}