{"id":2876,"date":"2012-01-25T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2012-01-25T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:20:02","slug":"mfdj012512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 25, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Ridiculous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the Badger State Banner newspaper, January 23, 1890:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Kuhni, charged with the murder of William Christian in the town of Primrose, December 12, 1888&#8230; pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to life imprisonment&#8230; [His] crime was the most atrocious ever committed in Dane County&#8230; About December 23, 1888, 2 boys while fishing found a sack in the water.  They opened it and found&#8230; portions of a human body.  It was found that Christian had been killed, his body cut in small pieces, part of the remains burned, part placed in a sack and thrown in a creek, and others packed in a valise and carried away by the murderer&#8230;  In his confession&#8230; Kuhni says that he killed Christian because he ridiculed his religion and laughed at him for reading the Bible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Culled from: My favorite book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0826321933\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theasylumeclecti&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=0826321933\">Wisconsin Death Trip<\/a> by Michael Lesy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Ridiculous Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Excerpt from the Badger State Banner newspaper, January 23, 1890: John Kuhni, charged with the murder of William Christian in the town of Primrose, December 12, 1888&#8230; pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to life imprisonment&#8230; [His] crime was the most atrocious ever committed in Dane County&#8230; About December [&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-2876","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\/2876","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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}