{"id":2004,"date":"2014-06-27T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/06\/27\/at-the-root-of-this-cruelty-which-treats-the\/"},"modified":"2015-01-10T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T17:37:57","slug":"at-the-root-of-this-cruelty-which-treats-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/06\/27\/at-the-root-of-this-cruelty-which-treats-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7tgn2CSyJ1rrwkloo1_r1_1280.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7tgn2CSyJ1rrwkloo1_r1_1280.jpg?resize=500%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7tgn2CSyJ1rrwkloo1_r1_1280.jpg?resize=500%2C300&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7tgn2CSyJ1rrwkloo1_r1_1280.jpg?resize=100%2C60&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7tgn2CSyJ1rrwkloo1_r1_1280.jpg?resize=1024%2C614&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7tgn2CSyJ1rrwkloo1_r1_1280.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>At the root of this cruelty, which treats the dispossessed like a pigeon infestation \u2013 fed crumbs by the kindly misguided, shooed away by the thoughtlessly indifferent and spiked by the inhumanly practical \u2013 are wilful misconceptions about homelessness: that it is a lifestyle choice, which oddly becomes more popular during periods of nationwide economic ruin; that poverty is down to personal failure; that kindness perpetuates it; and, more than any misconception, that good shelter is readily available.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Powerful commentary on \u201cdefensive architecture\u201d and homelessness. Also possibly a case where a designer deliberately chose to produce something dehumanising.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jun\/09\/spikes-homeless-london-metal-alcove-defensive-architecture-poverty\">Spikes keep the homeless away, pushing them further out of sight | Alex Andreou | Comment is free | theguardian.com<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the root of this cruelty, which treats the dispossessed like a pigeon infestation \u2013 fed crumbs by the kindly misguided, shooed away by the thoughtlessly indifferent and spiked by the inhumanly practical \u2013 are wilful misconceptions about homelessness: that it is a lifestyle choice, which oddly becomes more popular during periods of nationwide economic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/06\/27\/at-the-root-of-this-cruelty-which-treats-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}