{"id":468243,"date":"2026-09-18T19:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468243\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:54:13","slug":"a-changing-mission-district-and-intergenerational-friendship-center-tomas-monizs-novel-the-king-of-aloe-vera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468243\/","title":{"rendered":"A Changing Mission District and Intergenerational Friendship Center Tomas Moniz\u2019s Novel \u2018The King of Aloe Vera\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 11:57 am PT<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TomasMoniz-author-photo_credit-to-Ella-Moniz-COLLAGE.jpg\"   width=\"2046\" height=\"1535\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0(Ella Moniz)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">In Tomas Moniz\u2019s new novel \u201cThe King of Aloe Vera,\u201d seventy-five-year-old Rey has one month left in his longtime Mission District home when he befriends Q, a young woman on probation who is about to lose her housing. The novel unspools as a love letter to the Mission District of San Francisco and its longtime residents\u2014housed and unhoused alike\u2014 as they find themselves in a neighborhood that\u2019s changing in so many ways. We\u2019ll talk with Moniz about the Mission and Latinos, housing activism, and intergenerational friendship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Guest:<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Moniz, author, \u201cKing of Aloe Vera\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 18, 2026 Updated 11:57 am PT \u00a0(Ella Moniz) In Tomas Moniz\u2019s new novel \u201cThe King of Aloe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-468243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468243","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=468243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}