{"id":365,"date":"2013-11-17T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T21:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=365"},"modified":"2013-11-17T21:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T21:35:50","slug":"is-there-a-meaner-man-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Meaner Man Alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;\">The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook &#8211; February 4, 1892<\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"289\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/garretdom\/weird\/meanest.gif\" width=\"196\" height=\"216\" \/><br \/>\nIS THERE A MEANER MAN ALIVE?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;\">FAIRHAVEN, Vt., Feb. 4. \u2014This town now claims the meanest man in the United States. Two of his family were taken ill recently, and a week or so ago one of them died, while the death of the other, who had remembered the old man to the extent of $20,000, was expected. The old man went to the undertaker and drove a sharp bargain for two coffins at a reduction under the retail price. One was used, but the other remains in the best room covered up with a sheet, while the relative is still living and gives promise of recovering, in which case the old man will keep his coffin and doubtless lose the $20,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><i>From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook &#8211; February 4, 1892 &nbsp; IS THERE A MEANER MAN ALIVE? FAIRHAVEN, Vt., Feb. 4. \u2014This town now claims the meanest man in the United States. Two of his family were taken ill recently, and a week or so ago one of them died, while the death of the other, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is There A Meaner Man Alive?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}