{"id":30257,"date":"2013-07-25T15:43:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=30257"},"modified":"2019-10-15T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T01:01:20","slug":"gillespie2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30257","title":{"rendered":"One"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Under the pile,<br \/>\nas the stacked bodies<br \/>\ncame to be called,<br \/>\nthey found<br \/>\none,<br \/>\nnot poisoned<br \/>\nnot shot,<br \/>\nbut suffocated<br \/>\nunder the deadweight<br \/>\nof her mother<br \/>\nand father.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five pounds<br \/>\npressed facedown<br \/>\ninto the earth<br \/>\nwith the urgent desire<br \/>\nof a farmer<br \/>\nwho knows that the village<br \/>\ncrop will not survive<br \/>\nunder cloudless skies<br \/>\nbut plants his seeds<br \/>\nnonetheless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal2\"><i>(This poem is from the collection <\/i>Jonestown: A Vexation<i> by Carmen Gillespie. Dr. Gillespie was a Professor of English and the Director of the Griot Institute of Africana Studies at Bucknell University until her death on August 30, 2019. Her complete collection of writings for <\/i>the jonestown report<i> may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=50011\">here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the pile, as the stacked bodies came to be called, they found one, not poisoned not shot, but suffocated under the deadweight of her mother and father. Twenty-five pounds pressed facedown into the earth with the urgent desire of a farmer who knows that the village crop will not survive under cloudless skies but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":30364,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30257","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=30257"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93165,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30257\/revisions\/93165"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}