{"id":4678,"date":"2014-02-16T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4678"},"modified":"2014-02-16T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T17:15:47","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-february-16-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4678","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 16, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Machiavellian Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1937 the chief warden of San Quentin prison in California devised the Spot. Almost Machiavellian in concept, it simply consisted of a circle of grey paint, two feet in diameter, in which the offender had to stand for four hours, twice a day. He was not allowed to move at all, the only relief permitted being a two-minute toilet break, morning and afternoon. Very few prisoners showed any desire to be put on the spot a second time.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0747239843\/theasylumeclecti\">Rack, Rope &amp; Red-Hot Pincers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Machiavellian Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In 1937 the chief warden of San Quentin prison in California devised the Spot. Almost Machiavellian in concept, it simply consisted of a circle of grey paint, two feet in diameter, in which the offender had to stand for four hours, twice a day. He was not allowed to [&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-4678","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\/4678","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=4678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}