{"id":4367,"date":"2013-12-15T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2013-12-15T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T17:00:01","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-december-15-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4367","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for December 15, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Slamming Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In November 2008, a Brazilian woman died after being struck by her husband&#8217;s coffin when the hearse they were travelling in was involved in a car crash . \u00a0The 67-year-old woman was on the way to the cemetery to bury her husband, who had died the day before. \u00a0The hearse was struck from behind by an Alfa Romeo car. \u00a0The coffin slammed into the head of the woman, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the hearse, killing her instantly. \u00a0Marciana Silva Barcelos and her family were on the way to a cemetery in the town of Alvorada in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, for the funeral of her partner, Josi Silveira Coimbra. \u00a0The 76-year-old man had died of a heart attack on Sunday after attending a dance. \u00a0Following the accident, the driver of the Alfa Romeo was trapped for around 50 minutes in the wreckage and was taken to hospital where he was put under observation. \u00a0The driver of the hearse and a son of the dead man, who was also travelling in the hearse, were treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7722420.stm\">BBC News<br \/>\n<\/a>Generously submitted by: Chris Kench<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Slamming Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In November 2008, a Brazilian woman died after being struck by her husband&#8217;s coffin when the hearse they were travelling in was involved in a car crash . \u00a0The 67-year-old woman was on the way to the cemetery to bury her husband, who had died the day before. \u00a0The [&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-4367","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\/4367","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=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}