{"id":2563,"date":"2010-05-27T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2010-05-27T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:15:21","slug":"sex-symbol-and-communications-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"Sex symbol and communications specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She caused an international scandal by appearing nude in a Czechoslovak movie of 1933 before becoming a glamorous Hollywood star.<\/p>\n<p>She was Jewish but married an arms manufacturer who socialised with Hitler and Mussolini.<\/p>\n<p>She invented a frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technique that was so far ahead of its time that it was first submitted in 1941 but not used until the Cuba missile crisis of 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Who was she? Her name was Hedwig Eva Maria Kieseler but you might know her as Hedy Lamarr.\u00a0 More information <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hedy_Lamarr\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And why do I mention her now on this blog?\u00a0 Because she appears as a character in a novel I&#8217;m reading at the moment:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/034912132X\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=103612307&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1408700778&amp;pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&amp;pf_rd_r=1E16EYC2S0GZDVQ0GGFE\"> &#8220;The  Glass Room&#8221;<\/a> by Simon Mawer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She caused an international scandal by appearing nude in a Czechoslovak movie of 1933 before becoming a glamorous Hollywood star. She was Jewish but married an arms manufacturer who socialised with Hitler and Mussolini. She invented a frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technique that was so far ahead of its time that it was first submitted in 1941 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}