{"id":2574,"date":"2011-08-24T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2011-08-24T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T16:27:46","slug":"mfdj082411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 24, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Telling Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alfred H. Maurer was the first American painter to be recognized in Paris for his Fauvist landscapes.  He studied with Matisse, and seemed to have a bright future.  When he went broke, he left France and retreated to his father&#8217;s house in New York.  What resentment lurked behind his stifled genius remains unknown, though Maurer chose a telling place to hang himself.  He was found dangling in the doorway to his father&#8217;s bedroom in 1932.<\/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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Telling Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Alfred H. Maurer was the first American painter to be recognized in Paris for his Fauvist landscapes. He studied with Matisse, and seemed to have a bright future. When he went broke, he left France and retreated to his father&#8217;s house in New York. What resentment lurked behind his [&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-2574","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\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}