{"id":8833,"date":"2010-03-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/03\/05\/what-could-you-live-without\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:00:00","slug":"what-could-you-live-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/03\/05\/what-could-you-live-without\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could You Live Without?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/24\/opinion\/24kristof.html\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, U.S., January 23, 2010: Kevin Salwen, a writer and entrepreneur in Atlanta, was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in 2006. While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal,&#8221; Hannah protested. The light changed and they drove on, but Hannah was too young to be reasonable. She pestered her parents about inequity, insisting that she wanted to do something. &#8220;What do you want to do?&#8221; her mom responded. &#8220;Sell our house?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, that&#8217;s what the family did. The project &#8212; crazy, impetuous and utterly inspiring &#8212; is chronicled in a book by father and daughter scheduled to be published next month: &#8220;The Power of Half.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Salwens offer an example of a family that came together to make a difference &#8212; for themselves as much as the people they were trying to help. Mr. Salwen and his wife, Joan, had always assumed that their kids would be better off in a bigger house. But after they downsized, there was much less space to retreat to, so the family members spent more time around each other. A smaller house unexpectedly turned out to be a more family-friendly house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, U.S., January 23, 2010: Kevin Salwen, a writer and entrepreneur in Atlanta, was driving his 14-year-old,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}