{"id":21070,"date":"2019-09-17T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/blog\/ancien-decrocheur-samuel-a-aujourdhui-des-reves-bien-a-lui\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:13:13","slug":"once-homeless-samuel-now-has-dreams-of-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/blog\/once-homeless-samuel-now-has-dreams-of-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Once homeless, Samuel now has dreams of his own"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI lived in one place after the other, worked one job after another, and I\u2019m proud to say that today I&#8217;m back in school to get my GED.\u201d<\/p><cite><strong>Samuel<\/strong> got support from En&nbsp;Marge 12-17, a Centraide-supported agency.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI left home when I was 16 or 17. I fought with my mother all the time, and it just got unbearable, so one day she told me to leave. I decided to take it on as a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally, kids will go back home after a week or two, but after six months, it was clear that was no longer a solution for me. You come back once, twice\u2026 but by the third time, you know there\u2019s really no use in trying any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I lived in one place after the other, worked one job after another, and I\u2019m proud to say that today I&#8217;m back in school to get my GED. My real dream would be to live off my music. That&#8217;s Plan A. But failing that, I\u2019d like to stay in school, go to C\u00c9GEP and university, and eventually become an English teacher, so I could teach anywhere in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Samuel&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel a profit\u00e9 du soutien de En Marge 12-17, un organisme soutenu par Centraide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"6172,634,924,547,6294,303","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[669],"tags":[671],"content-type":[709],"sector":[183],"class_list":["post-21070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youth-success","tag-academic-perseverence","content-type-testimonials","sector-cote-des-neiges"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 23:40:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25083,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions\/25083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21070"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=21070"},{"taxonomy":"sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sector?post=21070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}