{"id":40200,"date":"2013-10-13T03:18:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T03:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=40200"},"modified":"2014-08-21T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T22:48:05","slug":"05-08-garcia-mertle-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40200","title":{"rendered":"A Note to My Tiffany"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47634\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/05-08-garcia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47634 \" alt=\"05-08-garcia\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/05-08-garcia.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the California Historical Society<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You will always be my little baby girl, my Tiffany Garcia. I was so blessed to have had the privilege of taking care of you. You were only about a year old, but you were so sweet and happy, and I was so lucky that you were the first baby I ever cared for. Leaving you behind when I left the Temple was one of the hardest things I had to do, but you were not mine and I knew I could not have taken you with me.<\/p>\n<p>I think of you to this day. I remember how you used to giggle with your tiny thumb in your mouth, how I would rub your eyebrows to help you drift off to sleep. I loved just holding you in my arms while you slept and tried not to move so I wouldn&#8217;t wake you. I will treasure my memories of you always.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Always, Linda<\/p>\n<p><i>(Linda Mertle is a regular contributor to <\/i>the jonestown report<i>. Her earlier writings appear <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17048\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will always be my little baby girl, my Tiffany Garcia. I was so blessed to have had the privilege of taking care of you. You were only about a year old, but you were so sweet and happy, and I was so lucky that you were the first baby I ever cared for. Leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":40185,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40200","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=40200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61025,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40200\/revisions\/61025"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}