{"id":376,"date":"2003-09-18T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T17:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/09\/jiraneks_legacy\/"},"modified":"2014-11-21T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T17:06:14","slug":"jiraneks_legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/09\/jiraneks_legacy.html","title":{"rendered":"JIRANEK&#8217;S  LEGACY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jan Herman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bad news for anyone who followed it was that David Jiranek, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwandaproject.org\">The Rwanda Project: Through the Eyes of Children<\/a>, was only 45 when he died last month in a swimming accident. The good news has been that the Rwanda Project continues, thanks to a devoted tribe of friends and family inspired by his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>As part of their fund-raising efforts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justbooks.org\">Just Books<\/a> in Jiranek&#8217;s hometown of Old Greenwich, Conn., will present Anita Pratap, former anchor of CNN&#8217;s Southeast Asia desk, reading from her new book &#8220;Island of Blood.&#8221; It explores the ethnic war in Sri Lanka, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, and conflicts in India&#8217;s Kashmir. The reading begins at 7 p.m., at the Just Books Too Coffeehouse at&nbsp;the Arcadia Coffee Company, 20 Arcadia Road. Tickets: $15. Information and reservations: 800-874-4658 or 203-637-0707. All proceeds will go to the project&#8217;s Imbabazi Orphanage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jan Herman The bad news for anyone who followed it was that David Jiranek, founder of The Rwanda Project: Through the Eyes of Children, was only 45 when he died last month in a swimming accident. The good news has been that the Rwanda Project continues, thanks to a devoted tribe of friends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-64","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14330,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/14330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}