{"id":4933,"date":"2015-11-26T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4933"},"modified":"2015-11-26T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:05:38","slug":"the-importance-of-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4933","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is from G-Dog and the Homeboys<\/a>, a book about Father Greg Boyle and his work with the gangs\u00a0of East Los Angeles. \u00a0It’s written by Celeste Fremon.<\/p>\n

Greg says \u201cI used to say that the caring adult who pays attention<\/i> is the most important factor to help a kid succeed.\u00a0 But now I\u2019ve come to believe that the necessary context for that attention is community \u2014 meaning a place that reminds you of your goodness and your talent each day.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I think we do here at Homeboy.\u00a0 We provide a place of \u2018no-matter-what-ness,\u2019 a place of unconditional love.\u00a0 Ideally it\u2019s not just a person who offers that, it\u2019s a community of feeling and connection and kinship that becomes a touchstone that you can return to when you hit life\u2019s inevitable difficulties.\u00a0 It\u2019s community that helps a kid discover the truth of who he is, in order that he can inhabit that truth.\u00a0 That\u2019s the kid who will be able to withstand the obstacles life throws at him and be okay.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 p297\u00a0 (Epilogue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is from G-Dog and the Homeboys, a book about Father Greg Boyle and his work with the gangs\u00a0of East Los Angeles. \u00a0It’s written by Celeste Fremon. Greg says \u201cI used to say that the caring adult who pays attention … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-interesting-link","category-present-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}