{"id":2169,"date":"2011-06-01T21:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2011-06-01T21:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:50:16","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-1-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For June 1, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Pressurized Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A pressure cooker explosion cut off a Miami woman&#8217;s leg, but a man saved her from bleeding to death. The pressure cooker fell on the woman&#8217;s kitchen floor and blew up Thursday morning, May 19, 2011. A piece of it severed the 79-year-old victim&#8217;s left leg above the ankle. A man tied a belt as a tourniquet to stem the bleeding until the ambulance arrived. The woman, who was not identified, was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital&#8217;s Ryder Trauma Center. It was not known whether her leg was saved, but she was expected to live.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: UPI<br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: Aimee<\/p>\n<p>Yikes! \u00a0I&#8217;m gonna give my rice cooker a bit more respect from now on! \u00a0And I wonder why they don&#8217;t bother to explain who the mysterious &#8220;man&#8221; was? \u00a0Did he just happen to be hanging out in her kitchen? \u00a0Did she call for help and he came in? \u00a0Was it her husband or son? \u00a0So much mystery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Pressurized Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A pressure cooker explosion cut off a Miami woman&#8217;s leg, but a man saved her from bleeding to death. The pressure cooker fell on the woman&#8217;s kitchen floor and blew up Thursday morning, May 19, 2011. A piece of it severed the 79-year-old victim&#8217;s left leg above the ankle. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}