{"id":4316,"date":"2013-12-03T01:48:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2013-12-03T01:48:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:48:39","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-december-2-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for December 2, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Sedated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tommy-Dorsey-9277676-1-402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4333\" alt=\"01t\/11\/arve\/g2353\/052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tommy-Dorsey-9277676-1-402.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tommy-Dorsey-9277676-1-402.jpg 402w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tommy-Dorsey-9277676-1-402-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tommy-Dorsey-9277676-1-402-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big band leader Tommy Dorsey died on November 26, 1956 at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut. \u00a0\u00a0He had eaten a heavy meal and began choking in his sleep. Dorsey began taking sleeping pills regularly at this time; therefore, he was so sedated that he was unable to awaken and died from choking.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tommy_Dorsey\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At first I was thinking this must surely be a Thanksgiving tragedy, because I&#8217;m pretty sure that if I had taken sleeping pills I would have died from choking on my heavy meal on Thanksgiving night, but research shows that Thanksgiving, 1956 was on November 22nd. \u00a0Oh well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Sedated Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Big band leader Tommy Dorsey died on November 26, 1956 at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut. \u00a0\u00a0He had eaten a heavy meal and began choking in his sleep. Dorsey began taking sleeping pills regularly at this time; therefore, he was so sedated that he was unable to awaken and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","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\/4316","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}