{"id":13358,"date":"2016-07-30T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=13358"},"modified":"2016-07-30T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T16:57:49","slug":"thinking-of-marianne-ihlen-leonard-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2016\/07\/thinking-of-marianne-ihlen-leonard-cohen.html","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Marianne Ihlen & Leonard Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Marianne<\/a>
\nAbout a week ago Marianne Ihlen was diagnosed with leukemia, and died on Thursday. She is believed to be about eighty or eighty-one.<\/p>\n

She and Leonard Cohen had a long-time romance, and she inspired several of his songs, most famously So Long, Marianne.<\/p>\n

Here she and Leonard Cohen talk<\/a> about their lives together.<\/p>\n

And, of course, there is that particular song. The deep emotional quality of this version makes it worth being the one to share today, despite technical difficulties\u2026<\/p>\n