{"id":18486,"date":"2018-11-29T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18486"},"modified":"2018-11-29T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:14:25","slug":"leave-him-there-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/29\/leave-him-there-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave Him There, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the body of the missionary <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/25\/leave-him-there\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed by the Andaman Islanders<\/a> will not be retrieved, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/he-lost-his-mind-slain-missionary-john-allen-chau-planned-for-years-to-convert-remote-tribe\/2018\/11\/27\/eb13d7ad-4685-4748-951b-790d671f655d_story.html?utm_term=.2a09bad91d20&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fishermen have been arrested, as has a friend of Chau\u2019s who helped organize the boat trip. Police have no strategy to retrieve his body and don\u2019t plan to confront the islanders, Pathak said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To this agnostic, his diary entries sound quite disrespectful of the natives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chau spent years planning and training to travel illegally to remote North Sentinel Island on a mission to convert its residents to Christianity, including learning emergency medicine, and studying linguistics and cultural anthropology, his missionary group said. Though he knew the islanders had long violently resisted outsiders, he conducted a covert mission to the protected island this month. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod, I don\u2019t want to die,\u201d Chau scrawled in his journal while sitting in a fishing boat off the coast of the island where the North Sentinelese people live, shortly before he was killed. \u201cWHO WILL TAKE MY PLACE IF I DO?\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLord, is this island Satan\u2019s last stronghold where none have heard or even had the chance to hear your name?\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>By the third day, he became convinced he was going to die.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching the sunset and it\u2019s beautiful \u2014 crying a bit .\u2009.\u2009. wondering if it will be the last sunset I see,\u201d he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m appalled, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the body of the missionary killed by the Andaman Islanders will not be retrieved, WaPo reports: The fishermen have been arrested, as has a friend of Chau\u2019s who helped organize the boat trip. Police have no strategy to retrieve his body and don\u2019t plan to confront the islanders, Pathak \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/29\/leave-him-there-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18490,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions\/18490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}