{"id":4888,"date":"2014-04-27T11:03:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2014-04-27T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T16:04:06","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-april-27-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4888","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for April 27, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Happy Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/happy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/happy-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"happy\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/happy-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/happy.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A 32-year-old North Carolina woman died in a car accident on April 23, 2014 just moments after she used her cell phone to post on Facebook. Police in High Point, N.C., said Courtney Ann Sanford posted a message on Facebook at 8:33 a.m. and one minute later the car accident was reported. She was driving. &#8220;The happy song makes me HAPPY,&#8221; Sanford wrote of the hit song by Pharrell Williams. In a matter of seconds, a life was over just so she could notify some friends that she was happy, said High Point Police Lt. Chris Weisner. Sanford drove her vehicle across a grass median and hit a truck. The truck driver was uninjured. As sad as it is, it is a grim reminder for everyone &#8230; you just have to pay attention while you are in the car, Weisner said.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: UPI<br \/>\nSubmitted by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostscribe.wordpress.com\" target=\"&quot;_blank\">Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>At least she died happy. &#8211; Aimee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think it was getting the capitalization and exclamation in HAPPY! that was her undoing. &#8211; DeSpair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Happy Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A 32-year-old North Carolina woman died in a car accident on April 23, 2014 just moments after she used her cell phone to post on Facebook. Police in High Point, N.C., said Courtney Ann Sanford posted a message on Facebook at 8:33 a.m. and one minute later the car [&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-4888","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\/4888","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=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}