{"id":18360,"date":"2014-09-17T06:40:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=18360"},"modified":"2014-09-18T06:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T12:42:52","slug":"winehouse-statue-features-star-of-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/winehouse-statue-features-star-of-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Winehouse statue features Star of David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; A statue of Amy Winehouse in London has the iconic blues singer wearing a Star of David.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling Sunday in the Camden Town neighborhood, where Winehouse lived, marked what would have been Winehouse\u2019s 31st birthday and was attended by her parents.<\/p>\n<p>The statue, by Scott Eaton, casts the singer, who was Jewish, mostly in gray striking a typical pose \u2013 one hand on hip, the other clutching a miniskirt \u2013 topped by a bouffant hairdo stuck with the statue\u2019s only burst of color, a red rose.<\/p>\n<p>Around her neck is a Star of David set in a circle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is incredibly emotional to see Amy immortalised like this, but Scott has done an amazing job in capturing her,\u201d her father, Mitch Winehouse, was quoted as saying by New Musical Express. \u201cIt is like stopping her in a beautiful moment in time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at 27.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Winehouse%20statue%20features%20Star%20of%20David\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1711,8790,8795,89,8788,6010],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}