{"id":3703,"date":"2013-03-13T20:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2013-03-13T20:46:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:46:53","slug":"mfdj031313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For March 13, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Ruthless Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iron collars used to punish slaves in Jamaica in the 1830s were ruthlessly designed. \u00a0From the circumference of the collar projected three sharp pointed rods, about eighteen inches long, at equal intervals from each other. \u00a0These effectively prevented the slave from lying down in anything resembling a comfortable position, for one or more rods would touch the ground, pressing the collar against his neck and causing agony when he turned his head.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0747239843\/theasylumeclecti\">Rack, Rope &amp; Red-Hot Pincers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Ruthless Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Iron collars used to punish slaves in Jamaica in the 1830s were ruthlessly designed. \u00a0From the circumference of the collar projected three sharp pointed rods, about eighteen inches long, at equal intervals from each other. \u00a0These effectively prevented the slave from lying down in anything resembling a comfortable position, [&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-3703","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\/3703","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=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}