{"id":52041,"date":"2014-06-23T08:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52041"},"modified":"2014-06-23T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:48:20","slug":"rip-stephanie-kwolek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52041","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Stephanie Kwolek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Kwolek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/06\/20\/kevlar-inventor-stephanie-kwolek-dies\/11133717\/\">died last week<\/a>. She was 90.<\/p>\n<p>Her passing was not widely highlighted in the press.\u00a0 Unless you saw one of the relatively small number of stories in the media, you probably didn\u2019t hear she\u2019d died.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the lady is responsible for literally thousands of persons being alive today who would doubtless be dead otherwise. And many if not most of those are military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Why? One word: <strong><em> Kevlar<\/em><\/strong>. Kwolek invented it as a DuPont researcher in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, dear lady. You did your part for humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands thank you every day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to one of our readers for alerting us to Ms. Kwolek\u2019s passing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Kwolek died last week. She was 90. Her passing was not widely highlighted in the &hellip; <a title=\"RIP, Stephanie Kwolek\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52041\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP, Stephanie Kwolek<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52041","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}