{"id":447,"date":"2009-07-19T22:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T04:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=447"},"modified":"2009-07-19T22:55:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T04:55:35","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-july-19-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 19, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Gentle Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The manacles were one of the &#8220;gentler tortures&#8221; used in 16th century Scotland. Standing on a stool, the accused was hung by the wrists against a wall, wearing iron gauntlets that could be gradually tightened as necessary; the stool was then removed, and the accused left dangling for many hours. The sadistic Richard Topcliffe, who tortured the Jesuit Father Edmund Campion more than ten times, remarked: &#8216;It will be as though he were dancing a trick or figure&#8217;. When Campion was tried in Westminster Hall in 1581, he was incapable of lifting his hand to plead, and two of his fellow priests had to raise it for him.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312184255\/theasylumeclecti\">The History Of Torture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Gentle Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The manacles were one of the &#8220;gentler tortures&#8221; used in 16th century Scotland. Standing on a stool, the accused was hung by the wrists against a wall, wearing iron gauntlets that could be gradually tightened as necessary; the stool was then removed, and the accused left dangling for many [&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-447","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\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}