{"id":3225,"date":"2009-09-03T02:26:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T09:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rumormillnewsradio.com\/podcast\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2009-09-03T02:26:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T09:26:51","slug":"davidconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2009\/09\/03\/davidconn\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Jonestown massacre is possible today, says David Conn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978, pastor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Jones\">Jim Jones<\/a> and his followers died in a mass suicide. Is it possible for the tragedy to repeat? According to David Conn, the answer is &#8216;Yes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>David Conn is a researcher who foresaw the Jonestown tragedy and tried to prevent it by alerting authorities, who failed to heed his warning. Three decades after the Jonestown suicides, we&#8217;re at a point where our sociopolitical environment is vulnerable to similar tragedies or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Co-author of &#8220;The Cult that Died,&#8221; David has just released his newest book, &#8220;Lednorf&#8217;s Dilemma,&#8221; that under the guise of fiction, describes what has and can happen when a group falls under the spell of a charismatic, cult leader.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978, pastor Jim Jones and his followers died in a mass suicide. Is it possible for the tragedy to repeat? According to David Conn, the answer is &#8216;Yes.&#8217;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,15,39,12,14],"tags":[1259,1260,1262,1264,1263,1261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}