{"id":569,"date":"2009-06-03T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/?p=569"},"modified":"2009-06-03T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T05:00:40","slug":"homeless-artist-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Artist Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/william-laga-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-570\" title=\"william-laga-crop\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/william-laga-crop.jpg\" alt=\"william-laga-crop\" width=\"298\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>One woman looked beyond one man&#8217;s mental illness to the artistic brilliance hidden inside.<\/p>\n<p>Now art patron Marcelle Danan spends her Mondays with William, helping this long-ignored painter bring his genius to life.<\/p>\n<p>This moving story mirrors that of the movie &#8220;The Soloist&#8221;, the film about a real-life journalist who discovers a brilliant, but schizophrenic musician, who lives on the streets of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link below to watch the video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs2.com\/video\/?id=104624@kcbs.dayport.com\">Art Patron Finds Amazing Painter On The Streets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One woman looked beyond one man&#8217;s mental illness to the artistic brilliance hidden inside. Now art patron Marcelle Danan spends her Mondays with William, helping this long-ignored painter bring his genius to life. This moving story mirrors that of the movie &#8220;The Soloist&#8221;, the film about a real-life journalist who discovers a brilliant, but schizophrenic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[9,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}