{"id":11035,"date":"2019-10-26T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/blog\/friends-intervene-to-help-homeless-man-in-austin-tx\/"},"modified":"2019-10-26T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T19:20:39","slug":"friends-intervene-to-help-homeless-man-in-austin-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/media\/friends-intervene-to-help-homeless-man-in-austin-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends intervene to help homeless man in Austin, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gTOO34FMJqU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After a series of misfortunes, Coy Featherston, 66, was homeless on the streets of Texas. But good luck \u2014 and good friends \u2014 intervened. After a number of his high school classmates spotted his name in the school paper, they joined together to help get Featherston\u2019s life back on track. Steve Hartman reports.<br \/>\n&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; Channel HERE: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1S7Dhik<br \/>\nWatch Full Episodes of the &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; HERE: http:\/\/cbsn.ws\/23XekKA<br \/>\nWatch the latest installment of &#8220;On the Road,&#8221; only on the &#8220;CBS Evening News,&#8221; HERE: http:\/\/cbsn.ws\/23XwqMH<br \/>\nFollow &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; on Instagram: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1T8icTO<br \/>\nLike &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; on Facebook HERE: http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1KxYobb<br \/>\nFollow the &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; on Twitter HERE: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1O3dTTe<br \/>\nFollow the &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; on Google+ HERE: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Qs0aam<\/p>\n<p>Get your news on the go! 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But good luck \u2014 and good friends \u2014 intervened. After a number of his high school classmates spotted his name in the school paper, they joined together to help get Featherston\u2019s life back on track. Steve Hartman reports. &#8221; Subscribe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[148,582,932,5312],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gTOO34FMJqU.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}