{"id":2297,"date":"2009-09-11T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T04:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2009-09-11T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T04:11:21","slug":"a-mayan-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/a-mayan-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mayan Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/mayan-life.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"240\" alt=\"mayan life.jpg\" class=\"main_img_left\" \/>I just finished a really good book that I want to share with you, called <em>A Mayan Life.<\/em> I got it from Gregorio, the head of the Peace Corps Guatemala training staff. He thought I might be interested because it was written by a Q&#8217;anjob&#8217;al author named Gaspar Pedro Gonzales. He&#8217;s from Soloma, which is very close to my village- 90 minutes or so by public transport, and the closest place to do banking or get butter.<\/p>\n<p>What really grabbed me about this book is that it is probably the only book ever written by the Q&#8217;anjob&#8217;al, talking about the Q&#8217;anjob&#8217;al, from a wider perspective of their overall place in humanity. As an outsider living in their culture, I found the occurrences in the tale both familiar and insightful; it&#8217;s packed with Q&#8217;anjob&#8217;al names and places and expressions that I hear every day. The Q&#8217;anjob&#8217;al culture is slowly disappearing, so it chills me to think that I am one of maybe a dozen people in the whole world who would have this perspective while reading about it.<\/p>\n<p>If you are one of our readers that are interested in Mayan culture, I think you will find this book both moving and insightful. If you are a family member and want to get a good look at how our villagers live, you might enjoy this book as well. It&#8217;s an honest, cutting protrayal of the Mayan struggle against discrimination, fate, and the history of their country while trying to maintain their dignity and way of life.<\/p>\n<p>You can find it on Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mayan-Life-Gaspar-Pedro-Gonzalez\/dp\/1886502013\/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished a really good book that I want to share with you, called A Mayan Life. I got it from Gregorio, the head of the Peace Corps Guatemala training staff. He thought I might be interested because it was written by a Q&#8217;anjob&#8217;al author named Gaspar Pedro Gonzales. He&#8217;s from Soloma, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jims-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}