{"id":80775,"date":"2018-08-10T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=80775"},"modified":"2018-10-12T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T22:17:50","slug":"if-robin-williams-were-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=80775","title":{"rendered":"If Robin Williams were still alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82256\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03a-silver-art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-82256\" src=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03a-silver-art.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03a-silver-art.jpg 2460w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03a-silver-art-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03a-silver-art-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03a-silver-art-1024x743.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03a-silver-art-700x508.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cartoon by Andy Silver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If Robin Williams were still alive<br \/>\nOur excuses would be dead<br \/>\nHe stayed to help us<br \/>\nWhile out of his head<\/p>\n<p>His genius now in tatters<br \/>\nThe quick wit dried up and gone<br \/>\nJust his wish to stay<br \/>\nAnd be with us at home<\/p>\n<p>The theft of a disease<br \/>\nYet nothing he did wrong<br \/>\nGenetics at play<br \/>\nThis home where he belongs<\/p>\n<p>A thousand chances to leave<br \/>\nHe turned them all down<br \/>\nSo he could remain on our team<br \/>\nBecause to us he belongs<\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019s our time<br \/>\nAs our parts all fall away<br \/>\nMay our tears remind us<br \/>\nTo stay for another day<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>(Andy Silver is a former member of Peoples Temple, and is now a divorce and federal mediator in Charlotte, North Carolina. His other article in this edition of\u00a0<\/em>the jonestown report\u00a0<em>is <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81346\">Understanding Dread, Trusting Intuition<\/a>. His complete collection of writings for this site may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17021\">here<\/a>. He may be reached at <a href=\"mailto:andy@resolutionexperts.com\">andy@resolutionexperts.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Robin Williams were still alive Our excuses would be dead He stayed to help us While out of his head His genius now in tatters The quick wit dried up and gone Just his wish to stay And be with us at home The theft of a disease Yet nothing he did wrong Genetics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":81346,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80775","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80775","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=80775"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82725,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80775\/revisions\/82725"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}