{"id":4224,"date":"2015-01-04T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T09:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2015-01-04T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T10:11:54","slug":"what-this-homeless-man-did-with-100-will-melt-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=4224","title":{"rendered":"What This Homeless Man Did With $100 Will Melt Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes in life, its the people who have so little that give so much. Such stories are truly heart warming and inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>YouTuber <strong>Josh Paler Lin<\/strong> \u2013 better-known for his hilarious pranks \u2013 was feeling the holiday spirit and decided to give a homeless man in California $100 to see what he would do with it.<\/p>\n<p>He followed the man, Thomas, with a camera to see how he spent the money.<\/p>\n<p>How he spends the money will astonish you.<\/p>\n<p>His first stop was a liquor store, but not for the reasons some might think: He bought bread and then headed over to a park, where Lin filmed him distributing the food to other homeless people.<\/p>\n<p>Although some people on social media have claimed the video\u00a0is staged, but only time will tell. What isn\u2019t staged is that warm feeling inside you get when you watch this video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"355\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AUBTAdI7zuY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video has been viewed over\u00a029 million times and counting. This goes to show how one kind act can affect an entire generation. I&#8217;m definitely inspired to do more and I hope you are too. Have a great Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes in life, its the people who have so little that give so much. Such stories are truly heart warming and inspiring. YouTuber Josh Paler Lin \u2013 better-known for his hilarious pranks \u2013 was feeling the holiday spirit and decided to give a homeless man in California $100 to see what he would do with it. He followed the man, Thomas, with a camera to see how he spent the money. How he spends the money will astonish you. His first stop was a liquor store, but not for the reasons some might think: He bought bread and then headed over to a park, where Lin filmed him distributing the food to other homeless people. Although some people on social media have claimed the video\u00a0is staged, but only time will tell. What isn\u2019t staged is that warm feeling inside you get when you watch this video. The video has been viewed over\u00a029 million times and counting. This goes to show how one kind act can affect an entire generation. I&#8217;m definitely inspired to do more and I hope you are too. Have a great Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[383,384,382],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-make-me-fabulous","tag-383","tag-homeless-man-with-100","tag-josh-paler-lin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}