{"id":47836,"date":"2022-05-02T17:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T00:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47836"},"modified":"2022-05-02T17:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T00:03:44","slug":"naomi-judds-death-spotlights-a-national-mental-health-crisis-worsened-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47836","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Judd\u2019s death spotlights a national mental health crisis worsened by COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans struggled with their mental health well before COVID-19, but the pandemic hasn\u2019t made shouldering mental illness any easier \u2013 an issue\u00a0brought to light over the weekend after the death of country music star Naomi Judd.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Judd was 76 years old and the mother of the country music duo The Judds, performing for decades alongside her daughter Wynonna. On Saturday, Wynonna and her sister Ashley\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27573538.26182\/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9qdWRkc29mZmljaWFsL3N0YXR1cy8xNTIwNDk1OTkxNzk5MDk1Mjk3P2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB9cd669de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27573538.26182\/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9qdWRkc29mZmljaWFsL3N0YXR1cy8xNTIwNDk1OTkxNzk5MDk1Mjk3P2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB9cd669de&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651620882746000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3AAdbDTr1m2TjRvtEqmq2y\">announced<\/a>\u00a0their mother had died, \u201cto the disease of mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans struggled with their&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47837,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47836\/revisions\/47837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}