{"id":45644,"date":"2019-03-18T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45644"},"modified":"2019-03-23T08:08:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T12:08:01","slug":"writing-prompt-jill-the-ripper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/18\/writing-prompt-jill-the-ripper\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt: Jill the Ripper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article on <em>LongReads<\/em> examines the minority opinion that authorities should have been seeking a woman as the murderer responsible for London&#8217;s Jack the Ripper killings. The theory has its origins in the testimony of a local woman who swore she&#8217;d seen one of the murder victims hours after her supposed time of death. Upon hearing this story, a chief inspector remembered seeing burned clothing in the fireplace of Mary Kelly&#8217;s room. What if the murdered had stolen Kelly&#8217;s clothes after disposing of her own, presumably blood-soaked, dress?<\/p>\n<p>The theory has never caught on among conventional Ripperologists, who seem to lack the imagination necessary to picture a woman behind the knife responsible for so many grisly killings. However, we also know that many women&#8217;s accomplishments are hidden in a man&#8217;s pockets. If we believe women capable of advance mathematical and scientific discoveries, why not murder?<\/p>\n<p>What other male historical figure, real or pseudonymous, could possibly have been a woman? Did Victoria Frankenstein cut her hair so she would be taken seriously as a scientist? What other commonly held belief can be turned on its head by swapping out gender or race (or species).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2019\/03\/12\/jill-the-ripper\/\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Whitechapel_Spitalfields_7_murders.JPG\">Drawing courtesy of Wikipedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on LongReads examines the minority opinion that authorities should have been seeking a woman as the murderer responsible for London&#8217;s Jack the Ripper killings. The theory has its origins in the testimony of a local woman who swore she&#8217;d seen one of the murder victims hours after her supposed time of death. Upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[453,527,513],"class_list":["post-45644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-prompts","tag-characters","tag-diversity","tag-what-happens-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45644"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46034,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45644\/revisions\/46034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}