{"id":4920,"date":"2014-05-12T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2014-05-12T21:06:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:06:03","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-may-12-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4920","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for May 12, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Dizzying Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On July 7, 1978, Bobbey Kay Kenrick, age 45, shuffled along the edge of a truly dizzying precipice in search of a perfect vantage point for a photo from Yaki Point at Grand Canyon . \u00a0She lost her footing and fell over the edge 600 feet. \u00a0Less than a year later, on April 8, 1979, Roger Sydnor, age 30, walked out on the Rim Trail near the Visitor Center for a dramatic dawn photo. \u00a0Sydnor lost his footing on the rim and fell 250 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bb0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/097009731x\/theasylumeclecti\">Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Dizzying Yet Truly Morbid Fact! On July 7, 1978, Bobbey Kay Kenrick, age 45, shuffled along the edge of a truly dizzying precipice in search of a perfect vantage point for a photo from Yaki Point at Grand Canyon . \u00a0She lost her footing and fell over the edge 600 feet. \u00a0Less than a [&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-4920","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\/4920","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=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}