{"id":6416,"date":"2020-10-06T06:57:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2020-10-06T06:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:57:20","slug":"bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6416\" data-postid=\"6416\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6416 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>An elderly man walking a bicycle loaded with gear veered toward me, stopped, and asked if I was a local. I said I was. He wanted to know about beach access. I gave him the lowdown. We continued the conversation and I learned his name was Bill. The longer we talked the more I noticed that Bill had a pronounced happy disposition. He was also groomed and wasn&#8217;t exuding that weathered and vacant look that some elderly men on the move do. I assumed he was homeless because there was that subtle vibe about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill told me he lived in the woods a couple miles from here, in a tent covered by a tarp. He&#8217;d moved into the area not long ago and found a choice secluded spot with outstanding phone reception. His stuff was safe from thieves, he&#8217;d picked a hollow that would protect him from the wind, he had a tent heater and a sweet little Honda generator. Bill was finished with slumlords forever. They&#8217;d screwed him over too many times. He had his Social Security and that was it for money, but now that he wasn&#8217;t paying rent and utilities, he had plenty of dough. He was feeling great. I asked him about the impending winter rain on the Oregon Coast. No problem. He&#8217;d lived two winters in a tent at the base of Mt. Hood so rain was nothing. We said goodbye and I watched him walk his bike away. He was going to the beach and later would return to his tent home in the woods. I marveled at Bill. I could not do what he was doing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly man walking a bicycle loaded with gear veered toward me, stopped, and asked if I was a local. I said I was. He wanted to know about beach access. I gave him the lowdown. We continued the conversation and I learned his name was Bill. The longer we talked the more I noticed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6418,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions\/6418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}