{"id":921,"date":"2010-05-26T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2013-11-23T14:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T06:51:30","slug":"mashup-karen-silkwood-charlie-chocolate-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2010\/05\/mashup-karen-silkwood-charlie-chocolate-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashup: Karen Silkwood + Charlie And The Chocolate Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/veruca-salt.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/veruca-salt-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" title=\"veruca-salt\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-922\" \/><\/a>Karen Silkwood was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Willy Wonka chocolate factory. Silkwood&#8217;s job was making Everlasting Gobstoppers, Hair Toffee, and Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum. She died under mysterious circumstances after investigating claims of irregularities and wrongdoing at the chocolate factory.<\/p>\n<p>After being hired by Wonka, Silkwood joined the Oompa-Loompa Workers Union and took part in a strike at the factory. After the strike ended, she was elected to the union&#8217;s bargaining committee and assigned to investigate health and safety issues. She discovered what she believed to be numerous violations of health regulations, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A worker fell into a chocolate river and was sucked up a pipe to the fudge room.<\/li>\n<li>A worker was blown up into a blueberry after consuming experimental chewing gum and had to be taken to the Juicing Room to get the juice out of her.<\/li>\n<li>A worker attempting to take one of Wonka&#8217;s nut-cracking squirrels for her own was thrown down a garbage chute. <\/li>\n<li>A worker was shrunk after meddling with dangerous television equipment and had to be taken to the Taffy Puller to be stretched back to normal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She also believed the lack of sufficient shower facilities could increase the risk of employee contamination.<\/p>\n<p>Silkwood&#8217;s body was found in her car, which had run off the road and struck a culvert. The car contained no candy. She was pronounced dead at the scene from a &#8220;classic, one-car sleeping-driver accident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please note: this blog was written while daydreaming in the land of chocolate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Silkwood was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Willy Wonka chocolate factory. Silkwood&#8217;s job was making Everlasting Gobstoppers, Hair Toffee, and Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum. She died under mysterious circumstances after investigating claims of irregularities and wrongdoing at the chocolate factory. After being hired by Wonka, Silkwood joined the Oompa-Loompa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2541],"tags":[1149,1151,1150,1153,1152,441,1148,1154],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-candy","tag-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory","tag-chocolate-factory","tag-chocolate-river","tag-karen-silkwood","tag-mashup","tag-willy-wonka","tag-worker-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}