{"id":3300,"date":"2023-10-08T12:49:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T12:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2023-10-08T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T12:53:35","slug":"from-prison-and-homelessness-to-a-new-life-and-prospects-for-lloyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3300","title":{"rendered":"From prison and homelessness to a new life and prospects for Lloyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">At school he was classed as a troublemaker, at home he was seen as a disruptive influence who got in the with the wrong crowd and ended up in foster care\u2026and from there it was a short step to car crime, shoplifting and street robberies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Markup__ParagraphWrapper-sc-13q6ywe-0 Markup__ParagraphWrapperInews-sc-13q6ywe-1 jvvDEQ gqFwNZ markup \">\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">By the time he was 19, Lloyd Sylvester was serving two years in prison for a nightclub armed robbery. The next 20 years saw him drifting from job to job, working for cash in hand and sleeping on whichever friend\u2019s sofa was available. There was a relationship for a while and Lloyd is now a proud father to his young daughter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">But it was only when he saw a sign for <\/span>Sheffield<span style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\"> charity Emmaus Sheffield that Lloyd decided he would call in for a chat and take the first steps to finally getting his life back on track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff914d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.co.uk\/news\/from-prison-and-homelessness-to-a-new-life-and-prospects-for-lloyd-4334963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}