{"id":4800,"date":"2003-11-18T16:02:02","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T00:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/18\/4800\/"},"modified":"2003-11-18T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2003-11-19T00:02:02","slug":"jonestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4800","title":{"rendered":"Jonestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978 I remember my dad coming back from his morning jog&#8230; in the mornings when I was little he would go out for a run, and occaisionally I would go with him.  I would take the small loop and he would take the long one, and we would meet towards the end and run the last part together.  <\/p>\n<p \/>\nWe would bring in the paper, which would usually be delivered while we were out.  It occurs to me that back then I was getting up two or three hours before I do now.  Hooray for progress!<\/p>\n<p \/>\nI hadn&#8217;t gone with him this time, and he came back to take a shower, like he always did, waiting for my mother to finish with hers&#8230; This morning he had the paper with him, and he was talking to my mother while she was in the shower&#8230;<\/p>\n<p \/>\nSomething was very wrong.  My dad was crying.  He kept saying things like &#8220;they killed the kids,&#8221; and &#8220;all those people.&#8221;  We sat down and he told me that the people in Jonestown had been forced to drink poison Kool-Aid&#8230;  even the kids there.  I think that&#8217;s my first memory of my father crying.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978 I remember my dad coming back from his morning jog&#8230; in the mornings when I was little he would go out for a run, and occaisionally I would go with him. I would take the small loop and he would take the long one, and we would meet towards the end and run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}