{"id":908,"date":"2011-02-04T08:02:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:31:28","slug":"lone-star-swan-poet-pigeon-caretaker-and-schizophrenic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/lone-star-swan-poet-pigeon-caretaker-and-schizophrenic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Swan, poet, pigeon caretaker and schizophrenic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those of you who live in or visit the Mission are likely familiar with Lone Star Swan, the homeless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectacularopticals.com\/Pages\/Photo_Pages\/AgentWorld_Pages\/AW_01.html\">poet and pigeon caretaker<\/a> of 16th Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s lived on the streets of the Mission for over a decade, often hanging out at Adobe Books. But like all homeless people, there&#8217;s a sad story to his life that isn&#8217;t immediately apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other day on MissionMission, commenter Pedro <a href=\"http:\/\/missionmission.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/31\/the-bearded-guy-that-hangs-out-at-adobe-books\">directed me to a TV news report<\/a> about Lone Star Swan, who&#8217;s birth name is John Ratliff. It&#8217;s a fascinating portrait of the man, and I encourage you to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schizophrenia Part 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rCbf-pKtkhU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schizophrenia part 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ideQS5fkt3k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who live in or visit the Mission are likely familiar with Lone Star Swan, the homeless poet and pigeon caretaker of 16th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Lone Star Swan, poet, pigeon caretaker and schizophrenic - MrEricSir.com","description":"Those of you who live in or visit the Mission are likely familiar with Lone Star Swan, the homeless poet and pigeon caretaker of 16th Street. He's lived on the"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[35,376,374,375,23],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-16thmission","tag-homeless","tag-lonestarswan","tag-pigeons","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10384,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}