{"id":34311,"date":"2013-07-28T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T21:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=34311"},"modified":"2013-10-20T22:11:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T22:11:57","slug":"osheatransformation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34311","title":{"rendered":"Transformation Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">Words slipped out of my fragile psyche<br \/>\nAnd slowly dripped from my fingers<br \/>\nLike warm blood oozing<br \/>\nOnto the cold chill of a computer keyboard<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I let go of minute memories<br \/>\nLet them pulse into their own lives<br \/>\nWith each poem a piece<br \/>\nOf my soul was torn away<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My bones hold tightly to<br \/>\nFear\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 anger\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 joy<br \/>\nOf yesterday<br \/>\nSo long ago<br \/>\nI wrote what I saw and heard<br \/>\nBut mostly about how I viewed<br \/>\nMy past through vivid recurring emotions<br \/>\nFlashbacks and bizarre dreams<br \/>\nWhen this conglomeration of thought<br \/>\nMerged together in a living<br \/>\nBreathing document<br \/>\nIt was published<br \/>\nFor you to hold<br \/>\nSee Jonestown as I saw it<br \/>\nAnd know that to be my truth<br \/>\nAs best I remember<br \/>\nNow the book finished<br \/>\nI can let go<br \/>\nYet not forget<br \/>\nAs I venture into a new beginning<br \/>\nOf my emerging self<br \/>\nI can look to the future<br \/>\nA new soul in a new and different world<br \/>\nTo live the fullest life possible<br \/>\nMy soul is unencumbered<br \/>\nThis book was my transformation song<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>by Teri Buford O\u2019Shea<\/b><br \/>\n8\/17\/2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words slipped out of my fragile psyche And slowly dripped from my fingers Like warm blood oozing Onto the cold chill of a computer keyboard I let go of minute memories Let them pulse into their own lives With each poem a piece Of my soul was torn away My bones hold tightly to Fear\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":34357,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34311","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=34311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43377,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34311\/revisions\/43377"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}