{"id":2567,"date":"2011-08-21T22:22:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T04:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2011-08-21T22:22:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T04:22:43","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-august-21-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2567","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 21, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Gently Roused Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The French appear to have been unique in keeping the condemned from knowing the exact date of execution.  Very early on the morning of execution, he was gently roused by two guards, who did not wear shoes and went in for him at the last minute.  One sees this quite clearly in gruesome footage, shot clandestinely from an atelier window, of the last guillotining in France, included in the A&#038;E documentary The Executioners.  The condemned, who is quickly led out a doorway and up three stairs, is rumpled from a night&#8217;s sleep and only gradually conscious of his impending execution, which is conducted with extreme haste.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060931035\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theasylumeclecti&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=0060931035\">The Last Face You&#8217;ll Ever See<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think?  Is it more humane to allow someone to know their date of execution &#8211; and anticipate it as it approaches &#8211; or to surprise them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Gently Roused Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The French appear to have been unique in keeping the condemned from knowing the exact date of execution. Very early on the morning of execution, he was gently roused by two guards, who did not wear shoes and went in for him at the last minute. One sees [&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-2567","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\/2567","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=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}