{"id":251,"date":"2021-01-04T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sidewalkstory.co.uk\/?p=251"},"modified":"2021-01-04T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:11:14","slug":"steve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Steve."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been a while since I had spoken to a homeless person I must admit; upon moving to Bath the problem of homelessness is still very prevalent and working in the city centre I noticed most days the same men and women sat asking for money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man who I regularly walked past I later discovered was called Steve who was an ex-army medic. Steve possessed a cardboard sign that had become torn and hard to read due to ink runs. I eventually plucked up the courage to ask Steve if he would let me re-design his sign into a slightly sturdier, waterproof version whilst still incorporating  the elements of his old design that he loved. This included his army regiment number and the Royal Army Medical Corps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2895-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2895-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2895-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The design was not elaborate or anything particularly noteworthy &#8211; however, cost me around \u00a36 to make, a small price for what I would hope could help bring Steve in some more money and help others to understand and ask more about his story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2896-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2896-1-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2896-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I understand that the sign has potential to make people question as to how he got the sign with the materials on it considering the position that he is in; but looking past this I wanted people to understand that no matter the condition of the cardboard sign, they are still having to hold it up and ask for money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I want to re-create many more signs so that gradually the general public can notice how homeless peoples stories are rich with information and are inclusive of a diverse range of backgrounds and also perhaps wish to re-create signs themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve was incredibly grateful for the re-creation of the sign and walking past him the following days that I gave it to him, I see it leans against the pillars of the Baths infrastructure by his hat and crossed legs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since I had spoken to a homeless person I must admit; upon moving to Bath the problem of homelessness is still very prevalent and working in the city centre I noticed most days the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewalkstory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}