{"id":29749,"date":"2018-05-14T18:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29749"},"modified":"2018-05-14T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:37:59","slug":"margot-kidder-finally-finds-her-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29749","title":{"rendered":"Margot Kidder finally finds her peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/skynews-margot-kidder-lois-lane_4310311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29750\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/skynews-margot-kidder-lois-lane_4310311-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/skynews-margot-kidder-lois-lane_4310311-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/skynews-margot-kidder-lois-lane_4310311-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/skynews-margot-kidder-lois-lane_4310311-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/skynews-margot-kidder-lois-lane_4310311.jpg 1096w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leave it to a most unusual source to provide poignancy to the death of a one-time film star who turned into a symbol for those who struggled as she did.<\/p>\n<p>Margot Kidder has died at the age of 69. Film fans remember as Lois Lane in the &#8220;Superman&#8221; series of movies.<\/p>\n<p>This is what David Axelrod, President Barack Obama&#8217;s former political guru said about Kidder, via Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><em>Margot Kidder should be remembered as much for courageously, candidly discussing her battles with mental illness as for any screen role. There are no Supermen\u2014 or women. It is not a character deficiency to acknowledge such struggles and get the help and treatment you need! RIP.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Kidder&#8217;s life hit the skids after her film career ended. But she didn&#8217;t go into hiding entirely. She was open about her troubles. Kidder spoke of her mental illness and of her homelessness. She was destitute.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose you could say she was a broken woman.<\/p>\n<p>But she recovered, managing to get her bipolar disorder under control. Kidder became a political activist, supporting progressive causes and candidates. She turned her interest to environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, the pain she suffered has been relieved for eternity. As David Axelrod noted, Margot Kidder demonstrated a <em>strength<\/em> of character by acknowledging the struggles she endured.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to a most unusual source to provide poignancy to the death of a one-time film star who turned into a symbol for those who struggled as she did. Margot Kidder has died at the age of 69. Film fans remember as Lois Lane in the &#8220;Superman&#8221; series of movies. This is what David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29749\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Margot Kidder finally finds her peace<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1266,7757],"class_list":["post-29749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-david-axelrod","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29751,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749\/revisions\/29751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}