{"id":57049,"date":"2015-05-24T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T17:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=57049"},"modified":"2015-05-18T05:21:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T10:21:21","slug":"another-good-reason-for-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2015\/05\/24\/another-good-reason-for-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Good Reason for 911"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Lindsey Bever<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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An 81-year-old North Carolina Army veteran touched an emergency operator earlier this week when he dialed 911 \u2014 not because he was hurt, but because he was hungry.<\/p>\n

Clarence Blackmon had just returned to his apartment in Fayetteville, N.C., after spending months in a hospital and rehabilitation facility where he has been battling cancer. When he got home, his refrigerator was empty. He had no family living nearby and no way to get to the grocery store. \u201cI can barely walk without holding onto a chair,\u201d\u00a0he told the 911 dispatcher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So he made an unorthodox yet desperate plea.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I need is someone to get to the grocery store and bring me some food because I need to eat something,\u201d\u00a0he said on the 911 tape<\/a>. \u201cWhatever you can do to help. I can\u2019t do anything. I can\u2019t go anywhere. I can\u2019t get out of my damn chair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within moments, the dispatcher, Marilyn Hinson, was jotting down his grocery list: a head of cabbage, two bananas, a can of beets and a can of green beans, tomato juice, three Pepsis, some processed ham and, his \u201cabsolute favorite,\u201d popcorn. He told her he had the money to pay her back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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