{"id":34355,"date":"2013-07-28T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=34355"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:32:57","slug":"young3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34355","title":{"rendered":"Mona"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36458\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/05-15-young-Mona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36458 \" alt=\"05-15-young-Mona\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/05-15-young-Mona-258x300.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/05-15-young-Mona-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/05-15-young-Mona.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the<br \/>California Historical Society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>You came to us,<br \/>\nbattered and bruised,<br \/>\nyour ebony marred and scarred,<br \/>\nwe bathed you in love and affection,<br \/>\nyou healed and blossomed.<\/p>\n<p>You called us Mommy and Daddy,<br \/>\nyou brightened our lives and warmed our souls,<br \/>\nyou laughed and played in joy.<br \/>\nYou joined mom and family in Jonestown.<br \/>\nYou brightened their lives and warmed their souls,<br \/>\nand you laughed and played in joy.<\/p>\n<p>While praising the virtues of Jonestown here,<br \/>\nall were perishing there,<br \/>\nlife, loss so near and far.<br \/>\nOft I wonder why I linger on,<br \/>\nyear after year, day by day, day after day,<br \/>\nlonging to hear you call me Daddy,<br \/>\nlonging to hear you laughing and playing in joy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>(This poem was originally written for the dedication service of the Jonestown memorial on May 29, 2011 at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>(<strong>Guy Young<\/strong> was a former member of Peoples Temple. His articles and poems for this site appear <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17063\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/name\/guy-young-obituary?id=59261524\">died<\/a> on August 16, 2025.)<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You came to us, battered and bruised, your ebony marred and scarred, we bathed you in love and affection, you healed and blossomed. You called us Mommy and Daddy, you brightened our lives and warmed our souls, you laughed and played in joy. You joined mom and family in Jonestown. You brightened their lives and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":34370,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34355","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=34355"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131709,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34355\/revisions\/131709"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}