{"id":455322,"date":"2026-06-01T11:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/455322\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:06:16","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\/nz\/455322\/","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":455323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-455322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}