{"id":45694,"date":"2019-03-26T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45694"},"modified":"2019-03-23T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T19:03:42","slug":"an-unlikely-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/an-unlikely-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unlikely Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the <em>New York Post<\/em>, author Lynne Olson discusses her new book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Madame-Fourcades-Secret-War-Frances\/dp\/0812994760\">Madame Fourcade\u2019s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France\u2019s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler.<\/a><\/em>\u00a0During the war, Fourcade used patriarchal expectations of women to her advantage as she led a vast network of underground resistance operatives. Working with a French military officer, Fourcade helped build a network of informants across Europe before the war began. Once France was invaded in 1940, this unlikely spy took her people underground, where she relayed information about the German&#8217;s movements of troops and weapons until the Allies liberated the country in 1944.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/11\/this-woman-risked-it-all-to-run-a-secret-wwii-spy-network\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0Tallandier-Rue des Archives\/Granger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the New York Post, author Lynne Olson discusses her new book\u00a0Madame Fourcade\u2019s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France\u2019s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler.\u00a0During the war, Fourcade used patriarchal expectations of women to her advantage as she led a vast network of underground resistance operatives. Working with a French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[516,453],"class_list":["post-45694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-prompts","tag-back-story","tag-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45694","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=45694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46063,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45694\/revisions\/46063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}