{"id":2582,"date":"2011-08-26T07:09:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T13:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2011-08-26T07:09:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T13:09:46","slug":"mfdj082611","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2582","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 26, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Blasphemous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Future saint, Pope Pius V (1504-1572) had an elaborate new lavatory installed at the Vatican in 1570.  At the time, even the slightest building project rated a formal dedication and Latin inscription.  So, with mock solemnity, one Nicolo Franco scrawled the following bit of graffiti on the walls there:  &#8220;<em>Papa Pius Quintus, ventres miseratus onustos \/ Hocce cacatorum nobile fecit opus.<\/em>&#8221;  Which translates: &#8220;Pope Pius V, filled with compassion for our full bellies, has erected this noble monument of caca seats.&#8221;  According to scholar Gustave Witkowski, Nicolo Franco was hanged for his blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385483767\/theasylumeclecti\">An Underground Education<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What a sourpuss.  Then again, popes aren&#8217;t exactly known for their sense of humor, are they?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Blasphemous Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Future saint, Pope Pius V (1504-1572) had an elaborate new lavatory installed at the Vatican in 1570. At the time, even the slightest building project rated a formal dedication and Latin inscription. So, with mock solemnity, one Nicolo Franco scrawled the following bit of graffiti on the walls there: [&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-2582","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\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}