{"id":29325,"date":"2013-07-25T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=29325"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T01:35:35","slug":"kooldirectory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29325","title":{"rendered":"Drinking the Kool-Aid: A Commentary and a Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal21\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 26.5pt; color: red; background-color: #f8f3e9;\">Kool-Aid Commentary<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 32.0pt;\">&#8220;Drinking the Kool-Aid&#8221; . . . Do we ever think about what that means?<\/span><\/b><br \/>\nby Julie Driscoll, <em>Chicago Liberal Examiner<\/em>, 1 January 2011<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was just thinking about the term we all throw around, \u201cdrinking the Kool-Aid.\u201d And although many of us who are a little, well, older, remember Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre, some might not. There are times I casually toss that comment out in terms of politics, without really thinking about it, but &#8212; like the word \u201cNazi\u201d &#8212; I think maybe we should at times give it a second thought. No one side is more guilty than the other of using this term, either &#8212; both sides employ it equally liberally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal21\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 26.5pt; color: red; background-color: #f8f3e9;\">And Finally\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal21\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theduckwebcomics.com\/Morning_Squirtz_lite\/5263584\/\">cartoon<\/a> appeared on the Internet this past year showing the connection between Jonestown and Kool-Aid. <span style=\"color: red; background-color: #f8f3e9;\">Warning<\/span>: Some viewers might find the cartoon offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kool-Aid Commentary &#8220;Drinking the Kool-Aid&#8221; . . . Do we ever think about what that means? by Julie Driscoll, Chicago Liberal Examiner, 1 January 2011 I was just thinking about the term we all throw around, \u201cdrinking the Kool-Aid.\u201d And although many of us who are a little, well, older, remember Jim Jones and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":29485,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29325","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29325","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=29325"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118848,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29325\/revisions\/118848"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}