{"id":13703,"date":"2011-07-24T23:06:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T03:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13703"},"modified":"2011-07-24T23:06:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T03:06:39","slug":"amy-winehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/amy-winehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Winehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning on ignoring her death, but there is so much chatter about it, I can\u2019t resist adding to it.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, having little interest in contemporary pop music, I may be one of the few people on the planet who has never heard any of her music. I\u2019m sure she was talented, but doubt that she was a successor to J. S. Bach: in 50 years, her music will probably be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it is a tragedy that any creature made in the image of God should reach a point where she sees so little value in that gift that she discards it by killing herself.<\/p>\n<p>Third, in the US, about 84 people commit suicide <em>every day<\/em>; they are no less important than Amy Winehouse, yet she gets all the attention.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, if she hadn\u2019t got all the attention, she may still be alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning on ignoring her death, but there is so much chatter about it, I can\u2019t resist adding to it. First of all, having little interest in contemporary pop music, I may be one of the few people on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/amy-winehouse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-13703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suicide","tag-amy-winehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}