{"id":25179,"date":"2017-03-08T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=25179"},"modified":"2017-03-08T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T15:21:18","slug":"lynne-stewart-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/03\/lynne-stewart-r-i-p.html","title":{"rendered":"Lynne Stewart, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_25189\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lynne-Stewart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25189\" data-attachment-id=\"25189\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/03\/lynne-stewart-r-i-p.html\/lynne-stewart-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lynne-Stewart.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"210,240\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lynne Stewart\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;Lynne Stewart&lt;\/font&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lynne-Stewart.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lynne-Stewart.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lynne-Stewart.jpg\" alt title=\"Lynne Stewart\" width=\"210\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25189\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><font size=2>Lynne Stewart<\/font><\/p><\/div>The radical leftist civil rights attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/07\/nyregion\/lynne-stewart-dead-radical-leftist-lawyer.html\">has died.<\/a> She was among the bravest. Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynnestewart.org\/whylynne.pdf\">background<\/a>. The feds were aiming to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/02\/frying_lynne_stewart.html\">fry her<\/a>. She served four years of a 10-year sentence when she was granted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2013\/12\/31\/breaking_fed_govt_asks_judge_to\">&#8220;compassionate release&#8221;<\/a> on New Year&#8217;s Day, 2014, due to a terminal case of late-stage breast cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Thousands of supporters had signed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/08\/free-lynne-stewart-save-her-life.html\">petition<\/a> seeking her release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The radical leftist civil rights attorney has died. She was among the bravest. Some background. The feds were aiming to fry her. She served four years of a 10-year sentence when she was granted &#8220;compassionate release&#8221; on New Year&#8217;s Day, 2014, due to a terminal case of late-stage breast cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-political-culture","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lynne-Stewart.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6y7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25198,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179\/revisions\/25198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}