{"id":30323,"date":"2013-07-25T15:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=30323"},"modified":"2013-11-20T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T01:30:12","slug":"randolph","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30323","title":{"rendered":"Living in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shy away from writing about my life since November 18, because most of what I have to say isn\u2019t really the sort of thing people want to hear. And I don\u2019t blame them. Most of my efforts were bent, I now think, towards not really processing an overwhelming grief. That and trying to gain a measure of security, if only of a material kind. The end result was that I managed to recreate a Temple-like work schedule while re-schooling, working as a programmer\/analyst and rehabbing 24 houses. I didn\u2019t join groups to effect positive ends, I didn\u2019t develop an addiction, or go to jail, or turn my life around by finding god. None of those things. Really all I did was try to learn the ways of Rome now that I had to live there. But when your tale is mainly of accomplishments in this one arena, telling someone about them sounds like, \u201cLook at me, I did a bunch of houses. Aren\u2019t I grand?\u201d And I don\u2019t have much else to tell about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shy away from writing about my life since November 18, because most of what I have to say isn\u2019t really the sort of thing people want to hear. And I don\u2019t blame them. Most of my efforts were bent, I now think, towards not really processing an overwhelming grief. That and trying to gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":30202,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30323","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=30323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49810,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30323\/revisions\/49810"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}