{"id":17063,"date":"2013-03-09T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=16968"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:19:51","slug":"splash_young","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17063","title":{"rendered":"Reflections, Articles, and Poetry by Guy Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/guyyoung.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/guyyoung_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/02-23-young.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/02-23-young_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Rex Morningstar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Guy Young<\/strong> was a former member of Peoples Temple. He lived much of his later life in Grants Pass, Oregon, and was profiled in the September 25, 2016 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.thedailycourier.com\/eedition\/index2_sped.html?py=2016&amp;pm=09&amp;pd=25&amp;pb=12&amp;pg=21\"><em>Grants Pass Daily Courier<\/em><\/a> (see pages 20 and 21). He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/name\/guy-young-obituary?id=59261524\">died<\/a> on August 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A 2024 profile of Guy Young by Bonnie Yates appears <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=128383\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81358\">My Wife, My Children<\/a>\u00a0(2018)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40184\">One Day<\/a>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40192\">The Johnny Brown I Knew<\/a>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34353\">We were part of a larger family: Experiencing Jonestown from a distance<\/a>\u00a0(2012)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34354\">Remembrance, Forgiveness, Hope<\/a>\u00a0(2012)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34355\">Mona<\/a>\u00a0(2012)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29293\">Remarks at May 29, 2011 Jonestown Memorial Dedication Service<\/a>\u00a0(2011)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29292\">Memorial Brings Rebirth of Spirit<\/a>\u00a0(2011)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30251\">Many Springs Have Passed<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30910\">Thriving Once More<\/a> (2009)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":16994,"menu_order":59,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17063","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17063","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17063"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131699,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17063\/revisions\/131699"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}