{"id":138636,"date":"2025-05-02T07:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/singer-songwriter-jill-sobule-known-for-gay-themed-anthem-i-kissed-a-girl-dies-in-house-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T07:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:49:40","slug":"singer-songwriter-jill-sobule-known-for-gay-themed-anthem-i-kissed-a-girl-dies-in-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/singer-songwriter-jill-sobule-known-for-gay-themed-anthem-i-kissed-a-girl-dies-in-house-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, known for gay-themed anthem &#8216;I Kissed a Girl,&#8217; dies in house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter whose witty writing first attracted widespread attention with the gay-themed song &#8216;I Kissed a Girl&#8217;, has died in a house fire. Her 1995 hit is widely regarded as the first song with an openly gay-theme to break into the Billboard top 20 charts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/05\/02\/singer-songwriter-jill-sobule-known-for-gay-themed-anthem-i-kissed-a-girl-dies-in-house-fi\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter whose witty writing first attracted widespread attention with the gay-themed song &#8216;I Kissed a Girl&#8217;, has died in a house fire. Her 1995 hit is widely regarded as the first song with an openly gay-theme to break into the Billboard top 20 charts. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":138637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}