{"id":113184,"date":"2016-02-20T02:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T02:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/20\/themyskira-nerdyfacts-nerdy-fact-1434\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T09:07:26","slug":"themyskira-nerdyfacts-nerdy-fact-1434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/20\/themyskira-nerdyfacts-nerdy-fact-1434\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-113184 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/20\/themyskira-nerdyfacts-nerdy-fact-1434\/attachment\/113185\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_o1bcefpSi31r95t24o1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_o1bcefpSi31r95t24o1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_o1bcefpSi31r95t24o1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/themyskira.tumblr.com\/post\/138171505847\" target=\"_blank\">themyskira<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nerdyfacts.tumblr.com\/post\/138158127802\" target=\"_blank\">nerdyfacts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nerdy Fact #1434: Wonder Woman was originally based on two women: the wife of creator William Marston and one of his former students that both he and his wife had sexual encounters with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/10\/27\/359078315\/the-man-behind-wonder-woman-was-inspired-by-both-suffragists-and-centerfolds\" target=\"_blank\">Source.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How about you actually name\u00a0\u2018em?<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne were among <a href=\"http:\/\/themyskira.tumblr.com\/post\/137719285142\/the-women-who-helped-create-wonder-woman\" target=\"_blank\">a number of women<\/a> who contributed to the original Wonder Woman, and they\u2019re fascinating people in their own right.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Holloway Marston was a brilliant woman. She earned three university degrees in psychology and law at a time when few women received any tertiary education. She was a successful career woman who assisted her husband with his work and was frequently the breadwinner of the family.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason she was able to continue working after having children? Olive Byrne, who was <i>not<\/i> simply a casual \u201csexual encounter\u201d, but the Marstons\u2019 lover and life partner. To enable Elizabeth to work, Olive stayed at home and raised both her and Elizabeth\u2019s children. She also wrote for <i>Family Circle<\/i> and contributed to Marston\u2019s research.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth is credited with pushing her husband to create a female superhero, and after his death she worked hard to preserve his vision for the character, urging DC to employ her as the comic\u2019s editor (she was ignored).<\/p>\n<p>Wonder Woman\u2019s bracelet\u2019s are Olive\u2019s bracelets: Olive was known for wearing a pair of wide silver bracelets, and Marston had these in mind when he envisioned Diana\u2019s bullet-deflecting accessories.<\/p>\n<p>Marston died in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until the end of their lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>themyskira: nerdyfacts: Nerdy Fact #1434: Wonder Woman was originally based on two women: the wife of creator William Marston and one of his former students that both he and his wife had sexual encounters with.\u00a0 (Source.) How about you actually name\u00a0\u2018em? Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne were among a number of women who contributed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/20\/themyskira-nerdyfacts-nerdy-fact-1434\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13731,13732,13730,4,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113186,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113184\/revisions\/113186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}