{"id":2445,"date":"2011-07-23T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2011-07-23T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:47:10","slug":"mfdj072311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2445","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 23, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Perfectly Composed Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On March 22, 1925, barely six years after the Grand Canyon had become a national park, Lewis W. Thompson stood on the edge of the South Rim to pose for a scenic photo proving that he had actually been to Grand Canyon. \u00a0Thompson&#8217;s position, however, proved less than ideal for a perfectly composed photo. \u00a0So he took one more step. \u00a0Into a crack. \u00a0Thompson tripped, lost his balance, tottered, then fell off the rim. \u00a0He plunged hundreds of feet to his death.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/097009731x\/theasylumeclecti\">Over the Edge: Death In Grand Canyon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m imaging the person taking the photograph lighting up a cigarette, walking slowly to the edge, looking down at the body, smiling, then walking slowly away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Perfectly Composed Yet Truly Morbid Fact! On March 22, 1925, barely six years after the Grand Canyon had become a national park, Lewis W. Thompson stood on the edge of the South Rim to pose for a scenic photo proving that he had actually been to Grand Canyon. \u00a0Thompson&#8217;s position, however, proved less than [&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-2445","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\/2445","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=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}