{"id":6035,"date":"2017-03-23T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2017-03-23T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:00:47","slug":"1601-brighton-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2017\/03\/23\/1601-brighton-road\/","title":{"rendered":"1601 Brighton Road: A Post-Gazette documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p class=\"video-tag\"><i class=\"fa fa-play-circle\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> In Focus Video<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"video-box\">\r\n<div style=\"display: block; padding-top: 0;\">\r\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1105443290001\/N1VVkFril_default\/index.html?videoId=5365393243001\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text videocaption\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Northside Common Ministries is housed in a big former church on Brighton Avenue. Post-Gazette photographer Steve Mellon drove by it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>He was familiar with its services, but had never talked to the residents of the Pleasant Valley Men&#8217;s Shelter, which houses 25 men who are homeless 365 nights a year, or other people who get services at the facility.<br \/>\n&#8220;I was curious about the people. I was curious about their stories,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In February, he went inside and talked to executive director Jay Poliziani, who was open to the idea of letting Steve, his video camera, and fellow photographer Stephanie Strasburg have access to residents\/clients who wanted to be involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a long time I&#8217;ve had this interest in going to find stories that are usually ignored &#8212; not just by us but by everyone,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The results are in a compelling video in which the people at 1601 Brighton Road tell their stories unflinchingly. Visit post-gazette.com to see the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Lillian Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northside Common Ministries is housed in a big former church on Brighton Avenue. Post-Gazette photographer Steve Mellon drove by it all the time. He was familiar with its services, but had never talked to the residents of the Pleasant Valley Men&#8217;s Shelter, which houses 25 men who are homeless 365 nights a year, or other&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2017\/03\/23\/1601-brighton-road\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[23],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/Thumbnail-e1490225999849.jpg?fit=2496%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions\/6088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}