{"id":29446,"date":"2020-01-26T09:55:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T14:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29446"},"modified":"2020-01-26T14:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T19:59:03","slug":"judy-sill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29446","title":{"rendered":"Judy Sill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t recall ever hearing of this young woman who is the latest in a parade of belated obituaries of women who&#8217;s lives the Times didn&#8217;t cover at their deaths. She was a promising artist who died early like so many other artists of my youth. She played the organ at her reform school&#8217;s church services.  She sounds a lot like Joni Mitchel. No telling what else she might have written had she lived a longer life.<\/p>\n<p>I read this obit just after this NPR story about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/01\/26\/799629304\/a-feminist-is-murdered-in-mexico-and-protesters-demand-answers\">the killing of another<\/a> in a long line of women in Warez Mexico. These murders are fueled by the vicious fight over the riches of America&#8217;s drug addiction. Such a waste. Both women died of drugs, just by different means.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Joni Sill&#8217;s song <strong>The Pearl<\/strong> which I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/23\/obituaries\/judee-sill-overlooked.html?action=click&#038;module=Features&#038;pgtype=Homepage\">in the obit <\/a>is brief but haunting.<\/p>\n<p>I will link to it after church.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hPOKfEl1e4s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t recall ever hearing of this young woman who is the latest in a parade of belated obituaries of women who&#8217;s lives the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29446"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29453,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29446\/revisions\/29453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}