{"id":30,"date":"2012-02-03T16:45:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2012-02-03T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:45:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13 alignright\" title=\"DSCN0217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In December 2004, I traveled to Antigua, Guatemala with a group of volunteers to teach English to Maya university students.<\/p>\n<p>While there two of our students mentioned obliquely their experiences surviving the civil war in their country. I was remembering their stories when I got on the plane to return to the States. Our flight was delayed and to pass the time I asked a young American girl sitting next to me what she was doing in Guatemala.\u00a0 \u201cOh, I\u2019ve lived in Antigua my whole life.\u201d Eager to learn more from a different perspective I asked, \u201cWhat was it like growing up there during the war?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was well-brought up, I was a middle-aged gray haired woman asking her a question. She turned to me politely, \u201cWhat war?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the question I returned to Guatemala in March 2005 to answer.\u00a0<em>What<\/em>\u00a0<em>War?\u00a0<\/em>places survivors\u2019 testimonies in the cultural and historical context of the 36 year long Guatemalan civil war. Testimonies in the book are verbatim but were, of necessity, shortened.<\/p>\n<p>Here the testimonies are presented in their entirety. Names and places have been changed to preserve the anonymity of those who spoke candidly about their experiences during the civil war.<\/p>\n<p>We invite anyone who wishes to contribute their testimony to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a>. \u00a0This is an ongoing process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/the-beginnings-of-cual-guerra\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Laurie Levinger<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2004, I traveled to Antigua, Guatemala with a group of volunteers to teach English to Maya university students. While there two of our students mentioned obliquely their experiences surviving the civil war in their country. I was remembering their stories when I got on the plane to return to the States. Our flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/cualguerra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}