{"id":814649,"date":"2026-05-22T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/814649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:22:14","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-we-can-all-play-a-small-part-in-helping-the-people-on-skid-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/814649\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: We can all play a small part in helping the people on Skid Row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: Guest contributor Vijay Gupta provides an eloquent gut punch to us all (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2026-05-19\/skid-rows-la-mayor-candidates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cL.A.\u2019s mayoral candidates aren\u2019t interested in the real Skid Row,\u201d<\/a> May 19). If you don\u2019t simultaneously feel some shame and compassion after reading this commentary (as I did), you may not be human at all.<\/p>\n<p>We need to acknowledge the suffering of these people and provide hope any way we can. There are many needs \u2014 as volunteers and donors, all can play a small part in uplifting the homeless, individually and collectively.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Sovich, Glendale<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: Thank you to Gupta for his moving op-ed about the resiliency and needs of the people who live on Skid Row. His compassionate perspective is desperately needed, as is the music he offers both to the unhoused and to those of us who can afford to attend concerts at Disney Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine King, Venice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Guest contributor Vijay Gupta provides an eloquent gut punch to us all (\u201cL.A.\u2019s mayoral candidates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":814650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,87081,7129,330818,2609,330817,6276,2961,19945,224,2444,5337,330815,330816,3546,61349,40288,161903,25235],"class_list":["post-814649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-disney-hall","tag-editor","tag-guest-contributor-vijay-gupta","tag-hope","tag-katherine-king","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-many-need","tag-moving-op-ed","tag-people","tag-resiliency","tag-skid-row","tag-small-part","tag-volunteer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116618445088848218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}