{"id":3048,"date":"2012-03-14T18:23:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2012-03-14T18:23:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T00:23:42","slug":"mfdj031412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For March 14, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Testy Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Natal, South Africa, in March 1824, a hundred and fifty witch-finders &#8216;smelt out&#8217; over three hundred tribesmen, declaring them all guilty of smearing the royal kraal, the palace, with blood.  However, Shaka, the ruler, declared them all to be innocent, stating that he had smeared the kraal himself to test the powers of the diviners.  He then sentenced all the witch-finders to be executed, and this was carried out, they being skewered or clubbed to death.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0747245819\/theasylumeclecti\">The Book Of Execution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ooooooooh!!!  Shaka is sneaky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Testy Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In Natal, South Africa, in March 1824, a hundred and fifty witch-finders &#8216;smelt out&#8217; over three hundred tribesmen, declaring them all guilty of smearing the royal kraal, the palace, with blood. However, Shaka, the ruler, declared them all to be innocent, stating that he had smeared the kraal himself [&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-3048","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\/3048","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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}