{"id":40169,"date":"2013-10-13T03:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T03:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=40169"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:48:43","slug":"04-07a-gosney-crone-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40169","title":{"rendered":"My Journey To The Crone\/Elder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/432208_2835347014914_1927988905_n.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/998268_10200803400440884_1719701676_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47933 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/998268_10200803400440884_1719701676_n-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"998268_10200803400440884_1719701676_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/998268_10200803400440884_1719701676_n-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/998268_10200803400440884_1719701676_n-700x393.jpg 700w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/998268_10200803400440884_1719701676_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My suffering became freedom<br \/>\nMy loss became compassion<br \/>\nMy grief became depth of being<br \/>\nMy overwhelm became expansion<br \/>\nMy desperation became willingness<br \/>\nMy despair became hope<\/p>\n<p>The impossible became triumph<br \/>\nThe victim became responsible<br \/>\nThe abdicator claimed his power and life back<br \/>\nThe challenges met became confidence<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/432208_2835347014914_1927988905_n.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Honesty became power<br \/>\nVulnerability became candid revelation<br \/>\nAnd the door to freedom<br \/>\nShame became forgiveness<br \/>\nGuilt became re-decision<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMistakes, mis-steps, wrong turns down the highway of life\u201d<br \/>\nAt a price so high<br \/>\nBecame discernment<\/p>\n<p>The folly of youth survived, integrated, re-directed<br \/>\nBecame the wise elder<br \/>\nWith a life time of experience to share<\/p>\n<p><i>(Vernon Gosney left Jonestown with Congressman Leo Ryan on November 18, 1978, and was seriously wounded during the shootings at the Port Kaituma airstrip. His other poem in this edition of <\/i>the jonestown report<i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40170\">Beings of Light<\/a>; his remembrance of Monica Bagby is <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40193\">here<\/a>. His previous writings are located <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17061\">here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My suffering became freedom My loss became compassion My grief became depth of being My overwhelm became expansion My desperation became willingness My despair became hope The impossible became triumph The victim became responsible The abdicator claimed his power and life back The challenges met became confidence Honesty became power Vulnerability became candid revelation And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":40162,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40169","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=40169"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108488,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40169\/revisions\/108488"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}