{"id":5116,"date":"2021-01-05T11:11:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:11:57","slug":"officially-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/officially-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Officially Homeless!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 1, 2021, the Secular Hub is homeless!\u00a0 Since we have not met at the Secular Hub&#8217;s location since March 2020 and our lease was expiring at the end of 2020, the Board of Directors decided that it was best to save our funds for a new location.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5122\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201211-194422-800x600-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201211-194422-800x600-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Packing the Hub\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201211-194422-800x600-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201211-194422-800x600-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201211-194422-800x600-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packing the Hub<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A team of volunteers braved the COVID-19 virus to pack the Hub&#8217;s belongings into a storage pod.\u00a0 Thanks to Bill, Ron, Becky, Dana, Marty, both Joes, Jesse, Jonathan, Danelle, Steve, Brandon, Jeff, and Richard.\u00a0 Forgive me if I did not mention your name because you all look alike in masks!\u00a0 Thank you again for your help in dislocating the Hub.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5124\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-111522-800x600-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-111522-800x600-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Packing the Pod\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-111522-800x600-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-111522-800x600-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-111522-800x600-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packing the Pod<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5123\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-142929-800x600-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-142929-800x600-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Loading the Pod\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-142929-800x600-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-142929-800x600-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh201214-142929-800x600-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loading the Pod<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Packing our belongings into a Pod was kind of like doing a 3D jigsaw puzzle. I hope it does not end up looking like multiple puzzles in the same box.<\/p>\n<p>Then a couple of days later, Paul and I said good-bye to the Pod as it was loaded on a truck to be stored elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Our last act of helping the homeless at this location was two people that showed up asking for help.\u00a0 We gave them some sweaters and blanket from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thecbb.org\/atheists-helping-the-homeless-denver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AHH<\/a> barrel.\u00a0 They also received a box of water and food.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5118\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh210102-114321-800x600-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh210102-114321-800x600-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Empty Hub\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh210102-114321-800x600-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh210102-114321-800x600-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dh210102-114321-800x600-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty Hub.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is sad to see the Hub emptied out.\u00a0 But it is a step to moving to a new location.\u00a0 My hope is next year at this time <strong>when we can gather in person<\/strong>, we can be in a new larger location that better accommodates our goals.\u00a0 <strong>You can help us reach this goal by donating to our <a href=\"https:\/\/secularhub.org\/y\/buildingfund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building Fund<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 1, 2021, the Secular Hub is homeless!\u00a0 Since we have not met at the Secular Hub&#8217;s location since March 2020 and our lease was expiring at the end of 2020, the Board of Directors decided that it was best to save our funds for a new location. A team of volunteers braved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/officially-homeless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Officially Homeless!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[612],"class_list":["post-5116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-our-community","tag-relocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}