{"id":5036,"date":"2014-08-09T22:32:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T03:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2014-08-09T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T03:32:39","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-august-9-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5036","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for August 9, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Gagged Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The native inhabitants of the West Indies suffered as much, if not more, at the hands both of the original Spanish settlers, and the British who followed them. In <em>The History of the British Colonies in the West Indies\u00a0<\/em>(1793), Bryan Edwards quotes an eyewitness account:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I once beheld four or five principal Indians roasted alive at a slow fire, and as the miserable victims poured forth dreadful screams, which disturbed the commanding officer in his afternoon slumbers, he sent word that they should be strangled, but the officer on guard&#8230; would not suffer it; but causing their mouths to be gagged, that their cries might not be heard, he stirred up the fire with his own hands, and roasted them deliberately till they all expired&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bb0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312184255\/theasylumeclectihttp:\/\/\">The History of Torture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Gagged Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The native inhabitants of the West Indies suffered as much, if not more, at the hands both of the original Spanish settlers, and the British who followed them. In The History of the British Colonies in the West Indies\u00a0(1793), Bryan Edwards quotes an eyewitness account: I once beheld four [&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-5036","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\/5036","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=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5037,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}