{"id":67559,"date":"2016-10-10T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=67559"},"modified":"2016-10-10T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:50:16","slug":"my-mom-had-a-heart-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=67559","title":{"rendered":"My mom had a heart of gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PT0497.Johnson,Bessie\"<\/a>Bessie Johnson was my mom. I was a toddler when she and my dad separated. My mom actually left my dad twice for being abusive. The second time she went to be with her mother, Irma Lee Gill. I never saw my mother again after she left the second time, and I never met my grandmother. They were living in California when they became involved in Peoples Temple. They both died in Jonestown along with my two half-sisters, Carma Lisa and Maisha Danika Johnson.<\/p>\n

My mom was a homemaker. The vague memory I have of her is that she was as always at home.I was a momma\u2019s boy and I have been told I have my mother’s ways. Although I do not remember much about her, I know that she had a heart of gold, and that I look just like her, because people who knew my mother have told me as much.<\/p>\n

She never lived to see the day, but I was the first generation in my immediate family to graduate from college and my daughter was the second.<\/p>\n

I also know my mother lives through me. I know she is gracious, loving, and kind. As long as I live, I will never forget my mom. I think about her every day.<\/p>\n

(Ray Johnson was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1985 he graduated from University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri as a Bachelor of Journalism. He has worked as a civil rights investigator for the City of Kansas City and was promoted to the position of the City\u2019s EEO\/Diversity Coordinator. Ray Johnson currently does diversity consulting in Atlanta, Georgia. He may be reached at rjohnson1682@yahoo.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bessie Johnson was my mom. I was a toddler when she and my dad separated. My mom actually left my dad twice for being abusive. The second time she went to be with her mother, Irma Lee Gill. I never saw my mother again after she left the second time, and I never met my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":67466,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67559","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67561,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67559\/revisions\/67561"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}