{"id":33180,"date":"2013-07-25T16:36:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=33180"},"modified":"2026-02-14T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:47:52","slug":"obitsbelle0","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33180","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Michael Bellefountaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/images\/jtr8\/images\/garrett\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Michael Bellefountaine\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/10-01.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Michael Bellefountaine<\/b>, a frequent contributor to <i>the jonestown report<\/i> and the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lavenderlookathetemple.pdf\"><i>A Lavender Look At The Temple<\/i> <\/a>, a history of gays and lesbians in the Temple, died May 10. An obituary for Michael appears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/mainetoday-pressherald\/name\/michael-bellefountaine-obituary?id=25798568\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33181\">Michael Bellefountaine: An Adopted Member of Peoples Temple<\/a> by Laura Johnston Kohl<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33182\">A Tribute to Michael Bellefountaine<\/a> by Garry Lambrev<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33183\">A Stranger Becomes a Friend<\/a> by Anna Costello Wisniewski<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33184\">Initiating the Embrace<\/a> by Fielding M. McGehee III<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33185\">Michael Bellefountaine: Revelations of a Researcher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33186\">The Limits of Language: A Response from Mike Cartmell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33187\">Michael\u2019s final words<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bellefountaine, a frequent contributor to the jonestown report and the author of A Lavender Look At The Temple , a history of gays and lesbians in the Temple, died May 10. An obituary for Michael appears here. Michael Bellefountaine: An Adopted Member of Peoples Temple by Laura Johnston Kohl A Tribute to Michael Bellefountaine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":33377,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33180","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=33180"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133778,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33180\/revisions\/133778"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}