{"id":5175,"date":"2014-07-20T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2023-06-18T14:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T21:12:22","slug":"homeless-in-sacramento-interview-with-darryl-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5175","title":{"rendered":"Homeless in Sacramento: Interview with Darryl Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5175-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DARRYLJEFFERSON.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DARRYLJEFFERSON.mp3\">http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DARRYLJEFFERSON.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>(Click to play)<\/p>\n<p>Every Saturday morning a few good folks bring food to feed the homeless in Sacramento. One informal group was started several years ago by a woman from Taiwan named Lily who arrived in the US with no education, no ability to speak English, and little money. Life was very hard for her, but Lily eventually became a licensed accupressure therapist and became financially stable, She never forgot how it felt to be poor, however, and started feeding the homeless because of her compassion for people in tough circumstances. I extracted the recording above from an interview I conducted with Darryl Jefferson during the breakfast one Saturday morning. The piece originally aired on KPFA Radio.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"5177\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?attachment_id=5177\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a24.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FS15&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1339834812&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SacramentoBreakfast20120616a24\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a24.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a24.jpg?fit=625%2C469\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5177\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a24.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"SacramentoBreakfast20120616a24\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a24.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a24.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a24.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5178\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?attachment_id=5178\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FS15&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1339834540&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07.jpg?fit=625%2C469\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5178\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SacramentoBreakfast20120616a07.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click to play) Every Saturday morning a few good folks bring food to feed the homeless in Sacramento. One informal group was started several years ago by a woman from Taiwan named Lily who arrived in the US with no education, no ability to speak English, and little money. Life was very hard for her, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-1lt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1360,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1360","url_meta":{"origin":5175,"position":0},"title":"Darryl Jefferson speaks on being homeless in Sacramento","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"December 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"One morning,\u00c2\u00a0as my wife's Buddhist group was engaged in its weekly food distribution to the houseless\u00c2\u00a0residents of north Sacramento, I decided to interview a few of those who were willing to talk. 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