{"id":281985,"date":"2025-11-09T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingramblog.wordpress.com\/2025\/11\/09\/like-severance-but-in-real-life\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:00:39","slug":"like-severance-but-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2025\/11\/09\/like-severance-but-in-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Severance but in real life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewingramblog.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"wp-image-281984\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a picture of Calutron operators at their panels, in the&nbsp;Y-12 plant&nbsp;at&nbsp;Oak Ridge, Tennessee during&nbsp;World War II. The&nbsp;calutrons&nbsp;were used to refine uranium ore into fissile material. During the&nbsp;Manhattan Project&nbsp;effort to construct an atomic explosive, workers toiled in secrecy, most having no idea to what end their labors were directed. Gladys Owens, the woman seated in the foreground, didn&#8217;t understand the exact purpose of her job until she saw see this photo in a public tour of the facility fifty years later. (<a href=\"https:\/\/flaminghydra.com\/r\/80929a13?m=7b2d9fee-2905-45cc-b5ca-5dac5f636d37\">via Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a picture of Calutron operators at their panels, in the&nbsp;Y-12 plant&nbsp;at&nbsp;Oak Ridge, Tennessee during&nbsp;World War II. The&nbsp;calutrons&nbsp;were used to refine uranium ore into fissile material. During the&nbsp;Manhattan Project&nbsp;effort to construct an atomic explosive, workers toiled in secrecy, most having no idea to what end their labors were directed. Gladys Owens, the woman seated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2025\/11\/09\/like-severance-but-in-real-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Like Severance but in real life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}