{"id":10380,"date":"2011-01-05T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T12:44:16","slug":"video-homeless-man-captivates-internet-05012011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/video-homeless-man-captivates-internet-05012011\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Homeless man captivates internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/homeless-man-captivates-internet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10381\" title=\"homeless-man-captivates-internet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/homeless-man-captivates-internet-280x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/homeless-man-captivates-internet-280x179.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/homeless-man-captivates-internet.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>The Columbus Dispatch discovered a homeless man along Ohio&#8217;s I-71 claiming to have &#8220;the God-given gift of voice.&#8221; His name is Ted Williams, and he&#8217;s an ex-radio announcer according to the note he scrawled on a piece of cardboard that he uses to solicit change from drivers. And wow, does Williams ever deliver for a dollar. Williams tells the Dispatch about his struggles, but thankfully &#8220;alcohol and drugs and a few other things&#8221; haven&#8217;t diminished Williams&#8217; velvety vocal cords, and he says he&#8217;s two years clean now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a god given gift of voice. I&#8217;m an ex-radio announcer who has fallen on hard times. Please! Any help will be greatfully appreciated. Thank you and God bless. Happy holidays,&#8221; says Williams&#8217; roadside sign for help.<\/p>\n<p>Like Williams, the radio industry has fallen on hard times in the past decade, but given the viral power of this video, we expect more than a few morning show and late-night appearances, and perhaps even a job, will be in Williams&#8217; near future. In fact, Reddit reports that Ted has already been tracked down by Columbus area radio show The Morning Zoo and will appear on tomorrow morning&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n[media id=435 width=610 height=340]\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Dispatch discovered a homeless man along Ohio&#8217;s I-71 claiming to have &#8220;the God-given gift of voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":10381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[14034,14035,14036,14037],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-columbus-dispatch","tag-golden-voice","tag-ted-williams","tag-the-morning-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}