{"id":4646,"date":"2014-02-06T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2014-02-06T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T03:22:18","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-february-6-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for February 6, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Distasteful Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 19th century Jamaican jails, slaves were &#8216;bowed&#8217; (a naval term meaning to stretch out with block and tackle) for flogging. \u00a0An account in the\u00a0<em>Jamaican Christian Record\u00a0<\/em>for 1830 provides the distasteful details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A female&#8230; about 22 years of age, was then laid down, with her face downwards; her wrists were secured by cords run into nooses; her ankles were brought together and placed in another noose; the cord composing this last one, passed through a block, connected with a post. The cord was tightened, and the young woman was then stretched to her utmost length.<\/p>\n<p>A female then advanced, and raised her clothes towards her head, leaving the person indecently exposed. \u00a0The boatswain of the workhouse, a tall athletic man, flourished his whip four or five times round his head, and proceeded with the punishment. \u00a0This instrument of punishment was a cat, formed of knotted cords. \u00a0The blood sprang from the wounds it inflicted. \u00a0The poor creature shrieked in agony&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312184255\/theasylumeclectihttp:\/\/\">The History of Torture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Distasteful Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In 19th century Jamaican jails, slaves were &#8216;bowed&#8217; (a naval term meaning to stretch out with block and tackle) for flogging. \u00a0An account in the\u00a0Jamaican Christian Record\u00a0for 1830 provides the distasteful details: A female&#8230; about 22 years of age, was then laid down, with her face downwards; her wrists [&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-4646","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\/4646","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=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4647,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}