{"id":633,"date":"2014-04-23T15:31:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/?p=633"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:08:24","slug":"rpcv-memoirs-accomplishing-the-third-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/rpcv-memoirs-accomplishing-the-third-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"RPCV Memoirs: Accomplishing the Third Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/04\/The-Barrios-of-Manta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-636 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/04\/The-Barrios-of-Manta.jpg\" alt=\"The Barrios of Manta\" width=\"221\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memoirs capture an individual\u2019s life.\u00a0 For many RPCVs, writing about their life and work in another country\u00a0provides the best way to educate others.<\/p>\n<p>Rhoda and Earle Brooks, who served in Ecuador from 1962-1964, published the first Peace Corps memoir titled The Barrios of Manta: A Personal Account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador in 1965.\u00a0 Shortly after, Arnold Zeitlin (1961-1963) published <i>To the Peace Corps with Love<\/i>\u2014a memoir about his service in Ghana.\u00a0 \u00a0<i>The Barrios of Manta<\/i> and <i>To the Peace Corps with Love<\/i> established a precedent for future Peace Corps volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/04\/To-the-Peace-Corps-with-Love-edited.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-637 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/04\/To-the-Peace-Corps-with-Love-edited.png\" alt=\"To the Peace Corps with Love edited\" width=\"202\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Upon completing their service abroad, Peace Corps challenges returned volunteers to carry out the organization&#8217;s\u00a0Third Goal. \u00a0The goal aims to inform Americans about people and cultures around the world.\u00a0 Through education about other nations and their people, the Peace Corps seeks to foster understanding and world peace.<\/p>\n<p>Memoirs provide a platform for sharing one\u2019s experiences and knowledge of their host country with the rest of the US.\u00a0 For more information and an extensive bibliography of published works on the Peace Corps, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/peacecorpsworldwide.org\/experience-books\/2014\/01\/26\/bibliography-of-p-experience-books\/\">Peace Corps Worldwide<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memoirs capture an individual\u2019s life.\u00a0 For many RPCVs, writing about their life and work in another country\u00a0provides the best way to educate others. Rhoda and Earle Brooks, who served in Ecuador from 1962-1964, published the first Peace Corps memoir titled The Barrios of Manta: A Personal Account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador in 1965.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,524,36,60,73],"tags":[279],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-blog-post","category-education","category-memoirs","category-peace-corps-history","tag-peace-corps-third-goal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}