{"id":3775,"date":"2009-10-29T14:14:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T12:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2009-10-29T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T12:15:25","slug":"the-year-i-was-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=3775","title":{"rendered":"The year I was homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/BeckyBlanton_2009G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/BeckyBlanton-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=669&#038;introDuration=16500&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=2000&#038;adKeys=talk=becky_blanton_the_year_i_was_homeless;year=2009;theme=rethinking_poverty;theme=might_you_live_a_great_deal_longer;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=master_storytellers;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=what_makes_us_happy;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=speaking_at_tedglobal2009;event=TEDGlobal+2009;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n This is an  intimate talk that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.Becky Blanton planned to live in her van for a year and see the country, but when depression set in and her freelance job ended, her camping trip turned into homelessness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an intimate talk that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.Becky Blanton planned to live in her van for a year and see the country, but when depression set in and her freelance job ended, her camping trip turned into homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129731,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=129731","url_meta":{"origin":3775,"position":0},"title":"Rayma Suprani Dictators hate political cartoons \u2014 so I keep drawing them","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"01\/02\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/rayma_suprani_dictators_hate_political_cartoons_so_i_keep_drawing_them","rel":"","context":"In &quot;PPT\/ cool decks&quot;","block_context":{"text":"PPT\/ cool decks","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=221"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":139176,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=139176","url_meta":{"origin":3775,"position":1},"title":"Kim Stanley Robinson: Remembering climate change &#8230; a message from the year 2071","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"13\/08\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/kim_stanley_robinson_remembering_climate_change_a_message_from_the_year_2071 Coming to us from 50 years in the future, legendary sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the \"history\" of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth's biosphere. 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