{"id":2280,"date":"2011-06-21T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2011-06-21T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T14:38:05","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-21-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For June 21, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Motoring Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author James Agee (famous for his quote, &#8220;How far we all come away from ourselves&#8230; you can never go home again&#8221; in his novel <em>A Death In The Family<\/em>) died in 1955 at the age of forty-five when he suffered a massive coronary while riding in a New York City taxi cab.  According to the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, a typical Manhattan resident will take a hundred cab rides a year, and have only 0.4% chance of dying in one over a ten-year period.  <\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061466417?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theasylumeclecti&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1642&#038;creative=6746&#038;creativeASIN=0061466417\">Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Motoring Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Author James Agee (famous for his quote, &#8220;How far we all come away from ourselves&#8230; you can never go home again&#8221; in his novel A Death In The Family) died in 1955 at the age of forty-five when he suffered a massive coronary while riding in a New York [&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-2280","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\/2280","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=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}