{"id":776,"date":"2010-01-11T23:39:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=776"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:39:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:39:37","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-11-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 11, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Strangely Appropriate Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dick Shawn (1924-1987) was a comedian who had a heart attack and died during a joke that seemed strangely appropriate: He was making fun of politicians by saying campaign cliches ending with &#8220;I will not lay down on the job!&#8221; Shawn then laid down on the floor face down. At first, the audience thought that it was all part of the show, until some time later a theater employee checked him for a pulse and began administering CPR. The paramedics then arrived, and the audience were told to go home &#8211; Dick Shawn was dead.<\/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 Strangely Appropriate Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Dick Shawn (1924-1987) was a comedian who had a heart attack and died during a joke that seemed strangely appropriate: He was making fun of politicians by saying campaign cliches ending with &#8220;I will not lay down on the job!&#8221; Shawn then laid down on the floor face [&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-776","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\/776","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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}