{"id":83306,"date":"2018-10-19T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=83306"},"modified":"2018-10-19T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:25:03","slug":"thirty-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=83306","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog written by Jeff Brailey was downloaded on 13 October 2018 from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/novemberghosts.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/thirty-years.html\">http:\/\/novemberghosts.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/thirty-years.html<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, November 8, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Thirty Years<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years is not really all that great a period of time in the grand scheme of things. Oh, it is half my life and I know I will be lucky to see another 30 years on this earth, but in the history of the world it is the snap of a finger.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from 2008 being the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre, it also marks a never before reached milestone in the 232 year life of our young republic. The United States of America has elected a non-white president for the very first time. Listening to the election night coverage on NPR and hearing Obama declared president-elect, I was overwhelmed with pride in my country. I never thought this day would occur in my lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Then I wondered what Rev. Jim Jones would have said. I wondered what his reaction would have been. Would he be amazed that just half a century after Rosa Parks refused to take a seat in the back of the bus our country would elect a black man as its leader?<\/p>\n<p>What happened in Jonestown 30 years ago is a horror we shall never forget. What happened in the USA last Tuesday night was a monumental event we shall always remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog written by Jeff Brailey was downloaded on 13 October 2018 from http:\/\/novemberghosts.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/thirty-years.html. Saturday, November 8, 2008 Thirty Years Thirty years is not really all that great a period of time in the grand scheme of things. Oh, it is half my life and I know I will be lucky to see another 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":83231,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83306","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=83306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83307,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83306\/revisions\/83307"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}