{"id":49706,"date":"2014-06-04T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49706"},"modified":"2014-06-03T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T22:26:16","slug":"marilyn-monroe-in-the-drone-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49706","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Monroe in the drone program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=49707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Norma-Jean-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Norma Jean\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Norma-Jean-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Norma-Jean-273x333.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Norma-Jean.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One of my former workmates sent us a link the the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/04\/upshot\/marilyn-monroes-world-war-ii-drone-program.html?hp&#038;_r=0\">New York Times<\/a> article to the story of Marilyn Monroe and her job in the drone program in 1944;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Working 10 hours a day for $20 a week in a World War II defense plant 70 years ago was 18-year-old Norma Jeane Dougherty, wife of a young United States merchant seaman assigned overseas. Her company, called Radioplane, in Burbank, Calif., founded by the British character actor Reginald Denny, made small remote-controlled pilotless aircraft, intended to help United States Army and Navy anti-aircraft gunners refine their targeting skills.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Dougherty inspected and sprayed parachutes in Burbank, despite warnings from her mother-in-law, a Radioplane nurse who had gotten her the job, that the fumes would ruin her \u201cbeautiful hair\u201d and her health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That story stands in stark contrast to the recent war effort, you know, how America went to the mall while the troops went to war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my former workmates sent us a link the the New York Times article to &hellip; <a title=\"Marilyn Monroe in the drone program\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49706\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marilyn Monroe in the drone program<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}