{"id":544,"date":"2024-01-03T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/03\/prison-to-folk-hero-gypsy-rose-blanchard-embraces-first-days-of-freedom\/"},"modified":"2024-01-03T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T14:45:09","slug":"prison-to-folk-hero-gypsy-rose-blanchard-embraces-first-days-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/03\/prison-to-folk-hero-gypsy-rose-blanchard-embraces-first-days-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison to folk hero: Gypsy Rose Blanchard embraces first days of \u2018freedom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blanchard, a victim of Munchausen by proxy who spent eight years in prison, is seeing a redemption arc with followers thrilled to watch her next moves<\/p>\n<p>Social media has already found an it girl for 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/dec\/28\/gypsy-rose-blanchard-released-prison-2015-murder-mother\">Gypsy Rose Blanchard<\/a>, a Missouri woman who persuaded her then-boyfriend to kill her mother after being forced to pretend that she was suffering from leukemia and other serious illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchard, who is 32, was released from a Missouri correctional center just days before the new year. She served eight years in prison for her part in the 2015 murder, while Nicholas Godejohn, her ex-boyfriend, received a life sentence. The shocking case got the TV treatment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2019\/mar\/19\/the-act-review-patricia-arquette-joey-king-hulu\">Hulu\u2019s 2019 miniseries The Act<\/a>, and was also the subject of HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/03\/gypsy-rose-blanchard-prison-release-instagram-tiktok-videos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanchard, a victim of Munchausen by proxy who spent eight years in prison, is seeing a redemption arc with followers thrilled to watch her next moves Social media has already found an it girl for 2024: Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a Missouri woman who persuaded her then-boyfriend to kill her mother after being forced to pretend &#8230; <a title=\"Prison to folk hero: Gypsy Rose Blanchard embraces first days of \u2018freedom\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/03\/prison-to-folk-hero-gypsy-rose-blanchard-embraces-first-days-of-freedom\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prison to folk hero: Gypsy Rose Blanchard embraces first days of \u2018freedom\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}