{"id":6417,"date":"2025-05-16T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:36:10","slug":"iconic-singer-dead-at-66-in-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=6417","title":{"rendered":"Iconic singer dead at 66 in house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Sobule, the influential singer-songwriter best known for her 1995 hit \u201cI Kissed a Girl,\u201d has died at age 66 in a house fire on May 1, 2025, at her home in Woodbury, Minnesota. Authorities are currently investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Sobule\u2019s passing comes just weeks before the release of a 30th anniversary reissue of her breakthrough self-titled album. Known for her fearless songwriting,<\/p>\n<p>her music tackled topics like LGBTQ+ rights, anorexia, and the death penalty, earning her praise as one of the most underrated voices of the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Her breakout came with \u201cI Kissed a Girl,\u201d which made history as the first openly LGBTQ-themed single to chart on Billboard, and featured a memorable music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Sobule, the influential singer-songwriter best known for her 1995 hit \u201cI Kissed a Girl,\u201d has died at age 66 in a house fire on May 1,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6419,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions\/6419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}