{"id":114428,"date":"2022-05-20T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114428"},"modified":"2022-05-20T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:47:53","slug":"1972-letter-to-temple-member-from-mendocino-county","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114428","title":{"rendered":"1972 letter to Temple member from Mendocino County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LL-4-b<\/p>\n<p>[County of Mendocino Mental Health Services letterhead]<\/p>\n<p>August 17, 1972<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Christine Kice<br \/>\n1600 Tomki Road<br \/>\nRedwood Valley, Calif, 95470<\/p>\n<p>Dear Ms. Kice,<\/p>\n<p>I really appreciated receiving your letter of August 15th; I get a good feeling of support when someone in the community takes the time to write and express their feelings. <\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve never experienced Pastor Jones&#8217; services I have heard of the great good coming from the People&#8217;s Temple Christian Church. You are a living testimony to the ability of the Church. But even more, to the ability of yourself \u2014 you did it \u2014 you were given the chance to examine your life, closely and begin anew and you took it, and that&#8217;s a beautiful commentary on what kind of a person you are.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your interesting letter and please feel free to drop by the clinic at any time to pay a visit.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Tom Brewster, MSW<br \/>\nSubstance Abuse Coordinator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL-4-b [County of Mendocino Mental Health Services letterhead] August 17, 1972 Ms. Christine Kice 1600 Tomki Road Redwood Valley, Calif, 95470 Dear Ms. Kice, I really appreciated receiving your letter of August 15th; I get a good feeling of support when someone in the community takes the time to write and express their feelings. Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":88356,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114428","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114429,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114428\/revisions\/114429"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}