{"id":1091,"date":"2015-04-01T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:11:58","slug":"peace-corps-service-in-1960s-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/peace-corps-service-in-1960s-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Corps Service in 1960s Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tPeter Cooey served in Honduras from 1966 to 1968. He worked on community development in the town of Orocuina. While there, Cooey used his camera to document his experiences. Below are a selection of his\u00a0images recently donated to the PCCA. These photographs highlight not only the Peace Corp&#8217;s community development projects, but also the vibrant communities which Cooey was immersed in during his time abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1096\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8725_13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1096\" class=\" wp-image-1096\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8725_13-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Community Development Project, PCCA. \" width=\"491\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community Development Project, PCCA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1093\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey5139_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1093\" class=\" wp-image-1093\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey5139_3-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Cooey on Mule, PCCA. \" width=\"275\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Cooey on Mule, PCCA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1095\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8724_20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\" wp-image-1095\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8724_20-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Boy with Box in Honduras, PCCA. \" width=\"417\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boy with Box in Honduras, PCCA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1094\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8723_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1094\" class=\" wp-image-1094\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8723_7-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Man in Honduras, PCCA. \" width=\"423\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man in Honduras, PCCA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1097\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8726_13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1097\" class=\" wp-image-1097\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8726_13-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Participants at Community Development Program\" width=\"430\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants at Community Development Program, PCCA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1092\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8721_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1092\" class=\" wp-image-1092\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/04\/Cooey8721_7-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Instructor with Students, PCCA. \" width=\"440\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor with Students, PCCA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Cooey served in Honduras from 1966 to 1968. He worked on community development in the town of Orocuina. While there, Cooey used his camera to document his experiences. Below are a selection of his\u00a0images recently donated to the PCCA. These photographs highlight not only the Peace Corp&#8217;s community development projects, but also the vibrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,524,25,29,36,50,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-blog-post","category-centralamericamexico","category-communitydevelopment","category-education","category-honduras","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}