{"id":685,"date":"2009-12-18T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=685"},"modified":"2009-12-18T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T19:08:10","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-december-17-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For December 17, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Mixed-Up Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employees of a Pennsylvania pet store expecting a shipment of tropical fish and salt water got a man&#8217;s dead body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in northeast Philadelphia, where the mix-up was discovered. He says he learned the body was that of a 65-year-old San Diego-area man who died of early onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. The body was supposed to go to a research laboratory in Allentown, a 70-mile drive away. US Airways Inc. released a statement saying the air cargo problem was caused by a &#8220;verbal miscommunication between a delivery driver and the cargo representative.&#8221; The Tempe, Ariz.-based airline says it&#8217;s deeply sorry. The fish were shipped in three boxes. The corpse was shipped in a wooden coffin wrapped in cardboard. Arabia says the fish were left at the airport and probably died.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: Chron.Com<br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: asm1976<\/p>\n<p>Those poor fish!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Mixed-Up Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Employees of a Pennsylvania pet store expecting a shipment of tropical fish and salt water got a man&#8217;s dead body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in northeast Philadelphia, where the mix-up was discovered. He says he learned the body was that of a 65-year-old San Diego-area [&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-685","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\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}