{"id":3535,"date":"2012-08-13T14:28:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/helen-gurley-brown-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:34:35","slug":"helen-gurley-brown-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/13\/helen-gurley-brown-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Gurley Brown Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2012\/08\/13\/cosmo-editor-helen-gurley-brown-dead-at-90\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies<\/h1>\n<p><em>By Ray A. Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-UD848_0813re_E_20120813164119.jpg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: normal; color: #666666; text-align: right\">Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor in chief of fashion magazine Cosmopolitan whose frank, modern attitudes about women and sex brought her fans and simultaneously made her a lightning rod, died Monday after a brief hospitalization in New York, according to a press release issued by Hearst Corporation. She was 90.<\/p>\n<p>With her landmark 1962 bestseller \u201cSex and the Single Girl\u201d and her stewardship of \u201cCosmopolitan,\u201d from 1965 to 1997, she opened up conversations about sexuality at a time when female empowerment was a growing topic of discussion and debate. The magazine offered style tips as well as sex tips that were far from coy.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine wasn\u2019t shy about showing skin. One of its most famous photo spreads featured a nude Burt Reynolds with his privates strategically covered.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2012\/08\/13\/cosmo-editor-helen-gurley-brown-dead-at-90\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WSJ.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies By Ray A. Smith Getty Images Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor in chief of fashion magazine Cosmopolitan whose frank, modern attitudes about women and sex brought her fans and simultaneously made her a lightning rod, died Monday after a brief hospitalization in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}