{"id":2668,"date":"2009-12-03T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2009-12-03T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T20:09:05","slug":"alcoholism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/alcoholism\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcoholism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got word that Rafael Juarez just died. I don&#8217;t think I mentioned him before; he was the field coordinator for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computersforguatemala.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Computers for Guatemala<\/a>. A few months back, he came out to our village to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/?page_id=2216\" target=\"_blank\">Marcos&#8217;s latrine<\/a> and learn more about composting latrines. While we were here, we had a great time with him and Eulalia, his coworker. As it turned out, he already knew Marcos; they once played in a band together. Since then we&#8217;ve bumped into him a few times, and he always gives us a ride when he sees us walking along the road into town.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael was young, about my age, and male- which puts him in the low risk group for most of the causes of death in Guatemala. Except for alcoholism, which is what got him. I didn&#8217;t realize that he had an ongoing struggle with the bottle, but apparently he checked himself into rehab 2 weeks ago and didn&#8217;t check out. We are told that about 700 people showed up for the funeral. That&#8217;s not surprising; he&#8217;s one of those guys we think of as &#8220;hope for Guatemala&#8221;: highly educated, professional, community-minded, enthusiastic. It&#8217;s a splash of cold water to realize that these things don&#8217;t make someone immune to the #1 killer of male adults in Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Rafael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got word that Rafael Juarez just died. I don&#8217;t think I mentioned him before; he was the field coordinator for Computers for Guatemala. A few months back, he came out to our village to see Marcos&#8217;s latrine and learn more about composting latrines. While we were here, we had a great time with [&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-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jims-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","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=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}