{"id":6041,"date":"2022-12-27T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2022-12-27T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:02:37","slug":"isaac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/isaac\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1030\" height=\"687\" src=\"http:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ISAAC-22-1030x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ISAAC-22-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ISAAC-22-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ISAAC-22-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ISAAC-22-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ISAAC-22-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ISAAC-22.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2018 I had the pleasure of meeting Isaac and recording his story for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/porchlightinc?__tn__=-]K*F\">Porchlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told us how after countless years of living on the streets and drinking a whole lot, Porchlight told him they had a place for him &#8211; IF he could stay sober for 30 days. The third time was the charm. Isaac put the beer down for good and moved into his new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We worked with Emily from Porchlight on the shoot and she described Isaac the best: &#8220;Isaac was a gentle soul with a laugh and smile that lit up the room.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Isaac had a place to call home and a job, you could find him buying coffee for homeless men at McDonalds, and he became a mentor guiding new admits to the Porchlight program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaac passed away a few days ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to Porchlight for never giving up on Isaac and thank you, Isaac for showing the world that it&#8217;s never too late to make those hard changes and turn your life around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">241 people slept at the Porchlight shelter last Tuesday night, a new record. If you can, please head over to Porchlight&#8217;s Amazon Wish List and purchase one or 35 items for the shelter. Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/c3Rksq4\">https:\/\/a.co\/c3Rksq4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rest well, Isaac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2018 I had the pleasure of meeting Isaac and recording his story for&nbsp;Porchlight. He told us how after countless years of living on the streets and drinking a whole lot, Porchlight told him they had a place for him &#8211; IF he could stay sober for 30 days. The third time was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[63,65,50,61,59,64,53,43,60,62],"class_list":["post-6041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonprofit","tag-cold","tag-give","tag-help","tag-homeless","tag-isaac","tag-madison","tag-madison-wisconsin","tag-nonprofit","tag-porchlight","tag-shelter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdreamersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}