{"id":2358,"date":"2011-07-07T13:59:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2016-01-03T00:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T06:17:48","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-july-7-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2358","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 7, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Writhing Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A British soldier who was flogged with a cat-o&#8217;-nine-tails\u00a0in 1832 described what he suffered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I felt an astounding sensation between the shoulders under my neck, which went to my toe-nails in one direction, and my finger-nails in another, and stung me to the heart, as if a knife had gone through my body&#8230; He came on a second time a few inches lower, and then I thought the former stroke was sweet and agreeable compared with that one&#8230; I felt my flesh quiver in every nerve, from the scalp of my head to my toe-nails. The time between each stroke seemed so long as to be agonizing, and yet the next came too soon. \u00a0The pain in my lungs was more severe, I thought, than on my back. \u00a0I felt as if I would burst in the internal parts of my body&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I put my tongue between my teeth, held it there, and bit it almost in two pieces. \u00a0What with the blood from my tongue, and my lips, which I had also bitten, and the blood from my lungs, or some other intertnal part, ruptured by the writhing agony, I was almost choked, and became black in the face&#8230; Only fifty had been inflicted, and the time since they began was like a long period of life; I felt as if I had lived all the time of my real life in pain and torture, and that the time when existence had pleasure in it was a dream, long, long gone by.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Culled from: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312184255\/theasylumeclecti\">The History Of Torture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somehow this awesome video by Esben and the Witch that Abigail sent me the other day came to my mind when reading that last paragraph. \u00a0Can&#8217;t imagine why&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[tube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VP0Nv_ivTaw[\/tube]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Writhing Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A British soldier who was flogged with a cat-o&#8217;-nine-tails\u00a0in 1832 described what he suffered: I felt an astounding sensation between the shoulders under my neck, which went to my toe-nails in one direction, and my finger-nails in another, and stung me to the heart, as if a knife had [&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-2358","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\/2358","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=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6225,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/6225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}