{"id":2790,"date":"2011-11-07T20:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T02:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2011-11-07T20:36:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T02:36:56","slug":"morb110711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For November 7, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been away.  Work ate my life for awhile.  I doubt that ever happened to Thomas Parr&#8230;  He knew how to live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Satisfying Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Parr of Winnington, Shropshire, was 152 years old when he died in the 17th century.  He married at 80 and was compelled to do penance for adultery at the age of 105.  Seven years later he married a second time, &#8216;to the stated satisfaction of his new wife&#8217;.  Forty years later he finally succumbed to rich food, strong drink and the sulphurous air of London.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: Death: A History of Man&#8217;s Obsessions and Fears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been away. Work ate my life for awhile. I doubt that ever happened to Thomas Parr&#8230; He knew how to live. Today&#8217;s Satisfying Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Thomas Parr of Winnington, Shropshire, was 152 years old when he died in the 17th century. He married at 80 and was compelled to do penance [&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-2790","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\/2790","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=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}