{"id":4951,"date":"2014-05-26T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T02:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2014-05-26T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T02:27:10","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-may-26-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4951","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for May 26, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Irresponsible Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sylvia Browne (1936-2013) was a self-proclaimed psychic who was\u00a0a fixture on\u00a0daytime talk shows for years. She had a devoted following but also many\u00a0critics who challenged the validity of her claims and accused her of\u00a0exploiting other people’s misfortunes to line her own pockets. \u00a0In 2004, Browne appeared on the Montel Williams Show along with Louwana\u00a0Miller, whose teenage daughter had disappeared the year before. Browne went\u00a0into her routine and informed Miller that her daughter was dead and that her\u00a0body was “in water.” \u00a0Miller was devastated by this revelation. She felt that it was true and so\u00a0gave her daughter’s belongings away and took down her pictures. She died of\u00a0heart failure in 2006, still grieving for her dead child.\u00a0Had she lived another seven years, she would have seen her daughter, Amanda\u00a0Berry, escape from the Cleveland home of a man who had kidnapped her and two\u00a0other women, holding them captive for a decade. And Amanda would not have\u00a0had to be told that her mother had gone to her grave believing she was dead.<\/p>\n

Culled From: Wikipedia
\nSubmitted by: Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n

Browne quite rightly came in for a great deal of criticism when her\u00a0prediction turned out to be so completely wrong; it just goes to show that\u00a0words can indeed hurt you. – Aimee\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Irresponsible Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Sylvia Browne (1936-2013) was a self-proclaimed psychic who was\u00a0a fixture on\u00a0daytime talk shows for years. She had a devoted following but also many\u00a0critics who challenged the validity of her claims and accused her of\u00a0exploiting other people’s misfortunes to line her own pockets. \u00a0In 2004, Browne appeared on the Montel […]<\/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-4951","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\/4951","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=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4953,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions\/4953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}