{"id":5544,"date":"2017-01-30T05:11:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T05:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","slug":"clare-hollingworth-the-most-interesting-woman-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/clare-hollingworth-the-most-interesting-woman-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Hollingworth, &#8220;the most interesting woman in the world&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her [obituary in The Economist](http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/obituary\/21714964-foreign-correspondent-was-105-obituary-clare-hollingworth-died-january-10th) reads like one of [those Dos Equis commercials](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S3VIJjdjbxw):<\/p>\n<p>> She gained the first interview with the last Shah of Iran in 1941; after his fall in 1979, he said he would speak only to her&#8230;she commandeered a British consulate car and drove into Germany from Poland. A gust of wind lifted a roadside hessian screen, revealing Hitler\u2019s army, mustered for the invasion&#8230;Aged nearly 80, she was seen climbing a lamppost to gain a better look at the crackdown in Tiananmen Square.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/obituary\/21714964-foreign-correspondent-was-105-obituary-clare-hollingworth-died-january-10th\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170121_obp001.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her [obituary in The Economist](http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/obituary\/21714964-foreign-correspondent-was-105-obituary-clare-hollingworth-died-january-10th) reads like one of [those Dos Equis commercials](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S3VIJjdjbxw): > She gained the first interview with the last Shah of Iran in 1941; after his fall in 1979, he said he would speak only to her&#8230;she commandeered a British consulate car and drove into Germany from Poland. A gust of wind&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/clare-hollingworth-the-most-interesting-woman-in-the-world\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,384],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2","category-world","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1rq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}