{"id":1889,"date":"2015-05-07T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2015-05-07T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:05:07","slug":"tippi-hedren-is-now-my-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/tippi-hedren-is-now-my-hero\/1889\/","title":{"rendered":"Tippi Hedren is now my hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved watching her. &#8220;The Birds&#8221; and &#8220;Marnie&#8221; come to mind first, and while I think I would&#8217;ve run screaming (how appropriate) from Alfred Hitchcock as a person, he did make good films. And Tippi Hedren has always been a classy actor. <\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t know till recently what a terrific role model she is, as well! <\/p>\n<p>I recently read a very informative article from the BBC about Miss Hedren: <center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-32544343\" title=\"How Tippi Hedren helped Vietnamese refugees get jobs and establish an industry in the US\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/media\/images\/82715000\/jpg\/_82715471_tippi_hendron.jpg\" alt=\"Tippi Hedren\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;How Tippi Hedren helped Vietnamese refugees get jobs and establish an industry in the US&#8221;<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Please go read that article &#8211; it is inspiring! In short form &#8211; in the mid 60s, she realized that displaced Vietnamese women, homeless because of the war, needed not just charity &#8211; but jobs. She established a school that taught the women sewing, typing, and most importantly &#8211; nail care and fashion. It worked so well that by now, 51% of the nail technicians in the U.S. are Vietnamese. <\/p>\n<p>Ms. Hedren wasn&#8217;t just sympathetic to their plight. She DID something to help. Truly a hero! <\/p>\n<p>P.S. And her other, very personal cause? is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shambala_Preserve\" title=\"Shambala Preserve, a sanctuary for exotic big cats\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Shambala Preserve<\/b><\/a>, a sanctuary she established to care for abandoned and orphaned exotic big cats. <\/p>\n<p>Like I said &#8211; a class act!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved watching her. &#8220;The Birds&#8221; and &#8220;Marnie&#8221; come to mind first, and while I think I would&#8217;ve run screaming (how appropriate) from Alfred Hitchcock as a person, he did make good films. And Tippi Hedren has always been a classy actor. <\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t know till recently what a terrific role model [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[64,120],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-news","tag-our-world","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}