{"id":81132,"date":"2018-09-18T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T23:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81132"},"modified":"2018-09-24T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T01:10:26","slug":"dark-temple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81132","title":{"rendered":"Dark Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stars are a river of souls.<br \/>\nEach marks a place for a life alight in eternity.<br \/>\nI placed them there.<br \/>\nI helped serve the communion that launched the ascension<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">of the little souls I loved so much, and miss.<\/span><br \/>\nEvery.<br \/>\nSingle.<br \/>\nDay.<br \/>\nTheir faces, alight in song, I see before me in twilight;<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">until darkness falls, the drug of sleep disguising splendor.<\/span><br \/>\nDeath is a necessary gateway to eternity.<br \/>\nThe pictures.<br \/>\nThey do not show the splendor.<br \/>\nThey hide it in a frozen moment of seeming horror.<br \/>\nFlies alight on corpses, swollen with fluid, in the heat of the jungle.<br \/>\nThe seeming corruption of the bodies<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">hosting incorruptible souls.<\/span><br \/>\nI carry it all inside me.<br \/>\nThe private glory.<br \/>\nThe public horror.<br \/>\nMostly I live alone with my secrets.<br \/>\nFew can know the ascending spiral of bliss, the ecstasy of devotion.<br \/>\nTo service.<br \/>\nTo ideals.<br \/>\nTo the one man who held the key to it all, led us up the staircase of glory,<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">opened the door to the flights of heaven; then the pull, the fall of gravity.<\/span><br \/>\nJim Jones. Reverend Jones. His worshipful.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Marganne Glasser lives in Poulsbo, Washington. She may be reached at <a href=\"mailto:MarGlasser5@gmail.com\">MarGlasser5@gmail.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stars are a river of souls. Each marks a place for a life alight in eternity. I placed them there. I helped serve the communion that launched the ascension of the little souls I loved so much, and miss. Every. Single. Day. Their faces, alight in song, I see before me in twilight; until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":80734,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81132","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=81132"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81244,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81132\/revisions\/81244"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}