{"id":1021,"date":"2017-12-05T06:28:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2017-12-05T06:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:28:58","slug":"he-gave-free-haircuts-to-the-homeless-gets-a-free-barbershop-from-a-kind-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2017\/12\/05\/he-gave-free-haircuts-to-the-homeless-gets-a-free-barbershop-from-a-kind-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"He gave free haircuts to the homeless, gets a free barbershop from a kind stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brennon Jones, a\u00a0former barber and wardrobe stylist, is quite popular among the homeless on the streets of\u00a0Philadelphia for a heartwarming reason &#8211; he gives them free haircuts. This year, he\u00a0spent much of his free time driving around downtown with a tray table and clippers, his &#8220;personal mobile salon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It started earlier this year, when Jones passed by a homeless person, dropping a couple dollars and a banana in front of him. Later, he felt guilty for not doing enough. So he thought of doing something that he did best- haircut. He dusted off his clippers and drove around looking for people who might be interested, stopping every so often and plugging the clippers in with a power invertor that he hooked up to his car battery.<\/p>\n<p>Now the tables have turned, and a good Samaritan is helping Jones. This month, he celebrated the opening of his very own barbershop \u2014 a gift from a fellow barber Sean Johnson, who was inspired by Jones&#8217; mission.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/style\/stranger-gives-barber-shop-man-behind-haircuts-homeless-t119012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.today.com\/style\/stranger-gives-barber-shop-man-behind-haircuts-homeless-t119012<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brennon Jones, a\u00a0former barber and wardrobe stylist, is quite popular among the homeless on the streets of\u00a0Philadelphia for a heartwarming reason &#8211; he gives them free haircuts. This year, he\u00a0spent much of his free time driving around downtown with a tray table and clippers, his &#8220;personal mobile salon.&#8221; It started earlier this year, when Jones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}