{"id":598,"date":"2009-10-01T21:21:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T03:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=598"},"modified":"2009-10-01T21:21:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T03:21:19","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-october-1-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For October 1, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Crushing Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1982, 27-year-old David Grundman and a roommate decided to do a little &#8220;cactus plugging,&#8221; by shooting the desert plant with a shotgun. The first one, a small cactus, went off without a hitch and Grundman was encouraged to try a larger prey: a 26-foot-tall Saguaro cactus, probably a 100-year-old plant. Unfortunately, Grundman blasted off a large chuck of the cactus that fell on him and crushed him to death! To date, this was probably the only known instance of revenge killing by a plant.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2007\/03\/12\/30-strangest-deaths-in-history\/\">Neatorama<\/a><br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: Bex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Crushing Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In 1982, 27-year-old David Grundman and a roommate decided to do a little &#8220;cactus plugging,&#8221; by shooting the desert plant with a shotgun. The first one, a small cactus, went off without a hitch and Grundman was encouraged to try a larger prey: a 26-foot-tall Saguaro cactus, probably a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","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\/598","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}