{"id":2440,"date":"2011-07-22T20:50:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T02:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2011-07-22T20:50:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T02:50:22","slug":"mfdj072211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2440","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 22, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Seated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ever tell an actor to &#8220;break a leg&#8221;? Be careful what you wish for. \u00a0In 1905, the Divine Sarah Bernhardt injured her knee performing the last scene\u00a0of the play &#8220;La Tosca.&#8221; Sadly, the injury never healed. By 1916,\u00a0gangrene had set in and the leg had to be amputated. Afterward, she\u00a0continued to perform, sticking to roles that allowed her to remain\u00a0seated. According to legend, circus mastermind P.T. Barnum offered\u00a0Bernhardt a hefty chunk of change for the amputated leg, but she\u00a0turned him down. The true whereabouts of the appendage remain a\u00a0mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2006\/08\/14\/the-missing-body-parts-of-10-famous-people\/\">Neatorama<\/a><br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: Reno Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Seated Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Ever tell an actor to &#8220;break a leg&#8221;? Be careful what you wish for. \u00a0In 1905, the Divine Sarah Bernhardt injured her knee performing the last scene\u00a0of the play &#8220;La Tosca.&#8221; Sadly, the injury never healed. By 1916,\u00a0gangrene had set in and the leg had to be amputated. Afterward, [&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-2440","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\/2440","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=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}