{"id":840,"date":"2010-01-21T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=840"},"modified":"2010-01-21T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:40:06","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-21-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 21, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Slamming Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On August 24, 1987, during the final moments of a pro wrestling match, Shirley &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Crabtree delivered his signature &#8220;Belly-Splash&#8221; move (basically jumping up and down, slamming his belly onto his opponent) on Mal &#8220;King Kong&#8221; Kirk, who suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 50. Crabtree was cleared after it was revealed that Kirk had a serious heart condition prior to the match. However, Crabtree blamed himself for Kirk\u2019s death and retired from pro wrestling. Before the match, Kirk had prophetically told his friends: &#8220;If I have to go, I hope it is in the ring.&#8221;<\/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 Slamming Yet Truly Morbid Fact! On August 24, 1987, during the final moments of a pro wrestling match, Shirley &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Crabtree delivered his signature &#8220;Belly-Splash&#8221; move (basically jumping up and down, slamming his belly onto his opponent) on Mal &#8220;King Kong&#8221; Kirk, who suffered a heart attack and died at the age of [&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-840","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\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}