{"id":1312,"date":"2017-07-20T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/i-found-out-my-long-lost-friend-was-homeless-so-we-caught-up\/"},"modified":"2019-06-18T01:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T01:03:29","slug":"i-found-out-my-long-lost-friend-was-homeless-so-we-caught-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/i-found-out-my-long-lost-friend-was-homeless-so-we-caught-up","title":{"rendered":"I Found Out My Long-Lost Friend Was Homeless, So We Caught Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Flongbeachpost%2Fvideos%2F10155414707720256%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lost contact with him after high school and was pretty shocked to know a friend of mine was living in the streets,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/voicewaves.org\/2017\/07\/i-found-out-my-long-lost-friend-was-homeless-so-we-caught-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes Rudy Cardoso-Peraza<\/a>, a reporter for VoiceWaves.\u00a0Watch and share this story of these Long Beach teens crossing paths again and making life changes.<\/p>\n<p><em>VoiceWaves\u00a0is a Long Beach youth-led journalism and media-training project. The youth, ages 16-24, are learning to report, write, and create digital journalism content. To learn more, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/voicewaves.org\/\">Voicewaves.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI lost contact with him after high school and was pretty shocked to know a friend of mine was living in the streets,\u201d writes Rudy Cardoso-Peraza, a reporter for VoiceWaves. 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