{"id":5983,"date":"2015-08-11T19:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T00:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T03:23:05","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-august-11-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5983","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for August 11, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"null\">Today&#8217;s Good For You\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n<p>Stout was invented in the 1700s by first roasting malt and barley. It fell out of favor when &#8220;pale ale&#8221; became available. By the end of the 1800s, stout was used for medicinal purposes and was recommended for nursing mothers to fortify breast milk. In Ireland, a patient rolled back from surgery was given a bottle of stout.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061466417\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theasylumeclecti&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0061466417\">Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some examples of &#8220;stout is good for you&#8221; advertisements:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/da65cb6b-4321-4fe0-90e4-ce26b26dcd1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/da65cb6b-4321-4fe0-90e4-ce26b26dcd1a-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/da65cb6b-4321-4fe0-90e4-ce26b26dcd1a-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/da65cb6b-4321-4fe0-90e4-ce26b26dcd1a-620x815.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/da65cb6b-4321-4fe0-90e4-ce26b26dcd1a.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/78a01ff2-78c0-4f77-9053-b8f37a0efac3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/78a01ff2-78c0-4f77-9053-b8f37a0efac3-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/78a01ff2-78c0-4f77-9053-b8f37a0efac3-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/78a01ff2-78c0-4f77-9053-b8f37a0efac3.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"null\">Morbid Mirth Du Jour!<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5c17b01d-125d-46ef-af47-e5c39a25c8a2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5c17b01d-125d-46ef-af47-e5c39a25c8a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <strong>Magnoire <\/strong>for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Good For You\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Stout was invented in the 1700s by first roasting malt and barley. It fell out of favor when &#8220;pale ale&#8221; became available. By the end of the 1800s, stout was used for medicinal purposes and was recommended for nursing mothers to fortify breast milk. In Ireland, a patient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-mirth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","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=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11769,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions\/11769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}