{"id":401294,"date":"2026-07-16T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401294\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:32:10","slug":"a-pathway-home-for-aunner-mario-maria-joel-and-kevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401294\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pathway Home for Aunner, Mario, Maria, Joel, and Kevin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel, 50, sat at a table in the courtyard of the motel signing paperwork.\u202fHis sweet-natured Rottweiler, Nina, snoozed on the ground at his feet.\u202fHe has been homeless off and on since 2005. \u201cIt\u2019s cheaper in the riverbed,\u00a0and if you\u2019re pretty ingenious you can get electricity and water,\u201d he said describing how he got water for washing from sprinkler systems and hydrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou showed me a lot,\u201d said Kevin, a friend and neighbor from the campsite, as he sat near Joel waiting for his turn to check in. \u201cI didn\u2019t know nothing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I lived under the bridge, I lived in the rafters so the city couldn\u2019t see me,\u201d said Joel, smiling at his resourcefulness.\u202f\u201cBut it was hard to take my dog in the rafters,\u201d he added.\u202fSo,\u00a0he came down.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel, 50, sat at a table in the courtyard of the motel signing paperwork.\u202fHis sweet-natured Rottweiler, Nina, snoozed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,21854,21855],"class_list":["post-401294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news-updates","tag-pathway-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}