{"id":142940,"date":"2017-12-29T22:38:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T03:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=142940"},"modified":"2017-12-29T22:38:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T03:38:05","slug":"mystery-writer-sue-grafton-dies-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/29\/mystery-writer-sue-grafton-dies-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery writer Sue Grafton dies in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142958\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142958\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sue-Grafton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142958\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sue-Grafton.jpg\" alt=\"Grafton was the author of the so-called Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Series in which each book title begins with a letter from the alphabet. The last was \u201cY is for Yesterday.\u201d (Photo by Mark Coggins from San Francisco - Sue GraftonUploaded by tripsspace, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sue-Grafton.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sue-Grafton-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sue-Grafton-768x1082.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sue-Grafton-727x1024.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grafton was the author of the so-called Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Series in which each book title begins with a letter from the alphabet. The last was \u201cY is for Yesterday.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=8716652\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Mark Coggins from San Francisco &#8211; Sue GraftonUploaded by <\/a>tripsspace, CC BY 2.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Mystery writer Sue Grafton has died in Santa Barbara, California. She was 77.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter, Jamie Clark, posted news of her mother&#8217;s death on Grafton&#8217;s web page Friday.<\/p>\n<p>She says her mother passed away Thursday night after a two-year battle with cancer and was surrounded by family, including Grafton&#8217;s husband, Steve.<\/p>\n<p>Grafton was the author of the so-called Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Series in which each book title begins with a letter from the alphabet. The last was \u201cY is for Yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter concluded her posting by saying, \u201cthe alphabet now ends at Y.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Mystery writer Sue Grafton has died in Santa Barbara, California. She was 77. Her daughter, Jamie Clark, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":142958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[41177],"class_list":["post-142940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-sue-grafton","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}