{"id":769,"date":"2007-06-15T02:42:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T06:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/06\/15\/johnny-five-life-in-transition-and-jo"},"modified":"2007-07-04T20:45:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T03:45:42","slug":"johnny-five-life-in-transition-and-johnnys-cave-on-nytimes-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/06\/15\/johnny-five-life-in-transition-and-johnnys-cave-on-nytimes-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Five: &#8220;Life in Transition&#8221; and &#8220;Johnny&#8217;s Cave&#8221; on NYTimes video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only 9 minutes long (not counting the 15 second commercial that comes first), but <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.feedroom.com\/?fr_story=4b9331e421acdb45f160864601764e121d16802b\">Life in Transition<\/a>, a video produced by the <em>New York Times<\/em> about <strong>Johnny Five<\/strong>, a homeless man also known as <strong>The Mayor of Ogden Avenue<\/strong> (in the Bronx), who probably has schizophrenia as well a drug addiction, is one of the most compelling, informative, and illuminating documentaries on chronic homelessness I&#8217;ve ever seen.  If you watch this video, another will follow immediately afterward: <a href=\"http:\/\/video.on.nytimes.com\/?fr_story=43ee09812fc6255c8849e2d7a9fcdcf24dfcc6ee\">Johnny&#8217;s Cave<\/a> (~7 1\/2 minutes long).<\/p>\n<p>Do watch both.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/index.php?id=P59197\">Archinect News<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>If we lived in medieval times, Johnny Five would count as a holy fool, both clairvoyant and blind.  He&#8217;s quite exceptional, and seems to know what he&#8217;s talking about when he describes himself as a newborn babe.  It would be easy to romanticize him because he&#8217;s so unique (yet simultaneously &#8220;<em>everyman<\/em>&#8220;).  It&#8217;s less easy to make sure he has a decent roof over his head, though, as the film makes obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only 9 minutes long (not counting the 15 second commercial that comes first), but Life in Transition, a video produced by the New York Times about Johnny Five, a homeless man also known as The Mayor of Ogden Avenue (in the Bronx), who probably has schizophrenia as well a drug addiction, is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1419,1642,1002],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities","category-homelessness","category-social_critique"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}