{"id":8062,"date":"2003-07-24T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T12:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2003-07-24T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2003-07-24T12:07:56","slug":"the-cybergrrrls-are-dropping-like-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8062","title":{"rendered":"The Cybergrrrls Are Dropping Like Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Street Tech pal Mark Frauenfelder emailed me with the sad news that another friend from the bad ol&#8217; days of the SF cyberculture scene has died. <a href=\"http:\/\/justified.com\/\" target=new>Jessica Grace Wing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\" target=new>bOING bOING&#8217;s<\/a> music editor (when it was a print zine), lost her battle with colon cancer on July 19. She was only 31 years old! <\/p>\n<p> Jessica and I worked together on the Happy Mutant Handbook. We did the &quot;Mutant Music Makers&quot; reviews. She was a beautiful, captivating presence, one of those people who seemed to ooze cosmic mysteries and unbridled creativity. She was a writer, Web designer, dancer, musician, short-film director, sound designer (she worked on Todd Solondz&#8217; film Happiness), and composer. She moved to the Big Applet in 1997 and became a successful Off-Broadway composer. Her first musical, entitled Lost, will premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival in August. <\/p>\n<p> Playbill Online has a short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/80767.html\" target=new>obit<\/a>. You can find out more about her work at her website <a href=\"http:\/\/warmblooded.com\" target=new>Warmblooded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Okay, could friends stop dying now? I feel old enough as it is! Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Tech pal Mark Frauenfelder emailed me with the sad news that another friend from the bad ol&#8217; days of the SF cyberculture scene has died. Jessica Grace Wing, bOING bOING&#8217;s music editor (when it was a print zine), lost her battle with colon cancer on July 19. She was only 31 years old! Jessica &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cybergrrrls Are Dropping Like Flies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}