{"id":1356,"date":"2019-10-23T22:34:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T02:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2019-10-23T22:34:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T02:34:04","slug":"jonestown-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/23\/jonestown-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this podcast very interesting. I was surprised I have never heard of Jim Jones and the things he did previously to listening to the podcast. It so intriguing how Jim Jones a person who started off as a leader with good intentions and practices turned insane. Jones is a good example of power changing someone completely. He admired Hitler and ultimately became a version of him by creating a massacre. It was ironic how someone who believed in racial equality would admire someone like Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>One thing they said in the podcast I thought was interesting was that if a couple of things had went differently, we could be talking about Jim Jones as a hero rather than a murderer. He would still have his flaws as all leaders do, but he made decisions that made him go from charming and charismatic to evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this podcast very interesting. I was surprised I have never heard of Jim Jones and the things he did previously to listening to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/23\/jonestown-11\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jonestown<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","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\/1356","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\/4525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}