{"id":241,"date":"2017-03-16T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/?p=241"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:01:32","slug":"finding-a-friend-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/finding-a-friend-in-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Friend in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-243 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/IMG_0296-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/IMG_0296-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/IMG_0296-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miry&#8217;s List founder Miry Whitehill-Ben Atar, right, and Shir Wakili in Westminster, Calif. on March 14, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wakili family immigrated to the U.S. in January. They were refugees from their home country of Afghanistan. After spending their first night in America at a motel, the family of seven moved into a one-bedroom apartment \u2026 with no beds. That\u2019s where <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miryslist.org\/\">Miry\u2019s List<\/a><\/strong><\/em> came in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Miry Whitehill-Ben Atar founded Miry\u2019s List in July of 2016. The organization helps refugee families like the Wakilis get necessities: food, clothing, shampoo and, in the case of the Wakilis, beds. Miry\u2019s list serves more than\u00a080 families in the greater Los Angeles area. \u201cI think it\u2019s the first time in my life I see \u2026 [someone] so kind \u2026 so good,\u201d says Shir Wakili, the patriarch of the family. \u201cI have a best friend by the name of Miry.\u201d<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-241-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/wav\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Miry.wav?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Miry.wav\">https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Miry.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wakili family immigrated to the U.S. in January. They were refugees from their home country of Afghanistan. After spending their first night in America at a motel, the family of seven moved into a one-bedroom apartment \u2026 with no beds. That\u2019s where Miry\u2019s List came in. Miry Whitehill-Ben Atar founded Miry\u2019s List in July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}