{"id":6761,"date":"2018-12-26T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2018-12-26T19:15:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T01:15:02","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6761","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 3.4 miles]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I frequently look at the daily Wikipedia.org front page.  They have multiple sections of interesting items that change each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today one of the items was a link to the wikipedia biographical page for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Jane_Odell\">Mary Jane Odell<\/a> who was a pioneer woman in broadcasting in Iowa and eventually became the Iowa Secretary of State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was a child I remember that my mother got her hair done at a beauty shop called &#8220;Sal&#8217;s&#8221; or maybe the guy&#8217;s name was Sal.  And one day we watched Mom modelling a new hair style on TV during the mid-day show hosted by Mary Jane Chin.  Later Mary Jane Chin became Mary Jane Odell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it was interesting to read in that wikipedia page that Chin\/Odell worked at KRNT-TV from  1955 to 1967 when she married Mr. Odell and moved with him to Chicago.   Evidently the hair-do TV thing happened before that.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little Googling yields the information that Sal&#8217;s Beauty Salon was at 2000 Grand in a building called the Jefferson Polk mansion. And Sal Salgado is still in Des Moines.  He has a page on Facebook.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 3.4 miles] I frequently look at the daily Wikipedia.org front page. They have multiple sections of interesting items that change each day. Today one of the items was a link to the wikipedia biographical page for Mary Jane Odell who was a pioneer woman in broadcasting in Iowa and eventually became the Iowa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6762,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/6762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}