{"id":708165,"date":"2026-06-01T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708165\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:45:09","slug":"it-was-poignant-knowing-that-these-were-the-last-images-she-did-the-intimate-final-photos-of-marilyn-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708165\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was poignant, knowing that these were the last images she did&#8217;: The intimate final photos of Marilyn Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">July, 1962. A woman poses on Santa Monica beach, her unmistakeable &#8220;blonde bombshell&#8221; features somehow softened, hair ruffled by the sea breeze. She appears radiant and playful, draping her body in a green towel or cosy knitwear. In the final photo of the shoot, she is snuggled on the sand, hands clasped, seeming to blow an affectionate kiss towards the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July, 1962. A woman poses on Santa Monica beach, her unmistakeable &#8220;blonde bombshell&#8221; features somehow softened, hair ruffled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-708165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}