{"id":4731,"date":"2014-03-09T22:08:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2014-03-09T22:08:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:08:27","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-march-9-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4731","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for March 9, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Prolonged Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Heretic&#8217;s Fork was a torture instrument consisting of two little forks, one set against the other, with the four prongs rammed into the flesh, under the chin and above the chest. \u00a0A small collar supported the instrument in such a manner that the victims were forced to hold their head erect, thus preventing any movement. \u00a0The forks did not penetrate any vital points, and thus suffering was prolonged and death avoided. \u00a0Obviously the victims&#8217; hands were tied behind their back.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4732\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hereticsfork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4732\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4732\" alt=\"Ouch!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hereticsfork.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ouch!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Culled from: <em>Torture \u2013 Inquisision \u2013 Death Penalty<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Prolonged Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The Heretic&#8217;s Fork was a torture instrument consisting of two little forks, one set against the other, with the four prongs rammed into the flesh, under the chin and above the chest. \u00a0A small collar supported the instrument in such a manner that the victims were forced to hold [&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-4731","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\/4731","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=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}