{"id":4871,"date":"2014-04-24T20:09:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T01:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2014-04-24T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T01:09:30","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-april-24-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4871","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for April 24, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Dark and Lonely Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIn June of 1890, 14-month-old Bertha Brown of Clear Spring, Indiana, swallowed a loaded cartridge. She died about a week later. Her local newspaper memorialized her thus:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Little Bertha was a sweet babe, and the home will be dark and lonely for many a day, but remember, loved ones, that she was too frail a flower for this\u00a0cold world, and Bertha has gone to bloom in the sunshine of Heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3.gendisasters.com\" target=\"&quot;_blank\">GenDisasters<\/a><br \/>\nSubmitted by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostscribe.wordpress.com\" target=\"&quot;_blank\">Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve read about kids swallowing all kinds of strange things, but a loaded cartridge is probably one of the strangest. &#8211; Aimee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Dark and Lonely Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In June of 1890, 14-month-old Bertha Brown of Clear Spring, Indiana, swallowed a loaded cartridge. She died about a week later. Her local newspaper memorialized her thus: &#8220;Little Bertha was a sweet babe, and the home will be dark and lonely for many a day, but remember, [&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-4871","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\/4871","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=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}