{"id":1324,"date":"2019-10-22T23:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T03:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2019-10-22T23:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T03:02:52","slug":"jonestown-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/22\/jonestown-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I previously did not have any knowledge of Jim Jones and Jonestown (which may be bad sorry) so I was very shocked at the whole podcast. The beginning was even alarming because the hosts were talking about how he started out with a bunch of good things but kept alluding to later in the podcast when we would find out some of the not so good acts he and his followers committed. I find it interesting how they mention the followers rationalizing Jones&#8217; actions because they were just already so invested in him and that they didn&#8217;t really know anything else because they were so deep into his beliefs. This reminds me of parts of the groupthink where the other people may rationalize unrealistic dangers because they just didn&#8217;t see the enemy as an actual threat.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I am surprised at how not more than those twenty people did not want to defect, especially after they weren&#8217;t really &#8220;allowed&#8221; to go back to America and then when the congressmen was assassinated but okay. The contradictions he used when he would go against The Bible but also quote scripture would be a major sign of crazy to me if someone tried to start this kind of church based on these aspects and it wasn&#8217;t even THAT long ago and that&#8217;s terrifying. Also how he admired Hitler that&#8217;s major weirdo stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously did not have any knowledge of Jim Jones and Jonestown (which may be bad sorry) so I was very shocked at the whole&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/22\/jonestown-7\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jonestown<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}