{"id":4656,"date":"2014-02-11T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2014-02-11T21:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T03:00:41","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-february-11-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4656","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for February 11, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Frozen Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authorities on a North Dakota reservation are investigating whether a woman found dead in a mobile home with an empty propane tank died from the cold. \u00a0Debbie Dogskin&#8217;s body was discovered Tuesday morning (February 4, 2014) at her Fort Yates home. \u00a0Sioux County Sheriff Frank Landeis says the temperature on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation dropped to 1 degree below zero overnight. \u00a0Landeis says he believes Dogskin &#8220;just froze to death&#8221;. Autopsy results are expected by Friday. \u00a0People have been struggling to stay warm as propane prices more than doubled due to a national shortage. \u00a0Tribal officials have declared a state of emergency because about 5,000 homes on the reservation are heated by propane. Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II says many residents are on fixed incomes and can&#8217;t afford the more expensive fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Culled From: The Associated Press<br \/>\nSubmitted by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostscribe.wordpress.com\">Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The conditions on many of our nation&#8217;s Indian reservations are inexcusable, especially in this day and age. &#8211; Aimee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Frozen Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Authorities on a North Dakota reservation are investigating whether a woman found dead in a mobile home with an empty propane tank died from the cold. \u00a0Debbie Dogskin&#8217;s body was discovered Tuesday morning (February 4, 2014) at her Fort Yates home. \u00a0Sioux County Sheriff Frank Landeis says the temperature [&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-4656","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\/4656","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=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}