{"id":367,"date":"2013-11-17T21:36:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T21:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=367"},"modified":"2013-11-17T21:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T21:36:52","slug":"the-rose-had-thorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"The Rose Had Thorns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large;\"><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large;\">Chico Weekly Record, Chico, California &#8211; Saturday, December 25, 1897<\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">I have no idea whether this is supposed to be a news item or a joke. It&#8217;s included on the front page amid obviously news-oriented headlines, but it certainly sounds like a fictional soap opera. I&#8217;m suspecting that it&#8217;s a joke that I&#8217;m just not in on&#8230; If anyone as anymore information on who in the Hell Russian Rose and Count von Van der Blinkenhofen-Striffenkrause were, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:comtessedespair@gmail.com\">write<\/a>!<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"27%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/garretdom\/weird\/splash.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"375\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/garretdom\/weird\/rose.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"450\" \/><\/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<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chico Weekly Record, Chico, California &#8211; Saturday, December 25, 1897 &nbsp; I have no idea whether this is supposed to be a news item or a joke. It&#8217;s included on the front page amid obviously news-oriented headlines, but it certainly sounds like a fictional soap opera. I&#8217;m suspecting that it&#8217;s a joke that I&#8217;m just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rose Had Thorns<\/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-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}