{"id":684,"date":"2018-02-03T01:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T01:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=684"},"modified":"2018-02-04T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T03:52:09","slug":"a-fatal-practical-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"A Fatal Practical Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">December 6, 1886<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>A Fatal Practical Joke.<\/p>\n<p><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180203_144242-01.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-689\" src=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180203_144242-01-168x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180203_144242-01-168x300.jpeg 168w, https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180203_144242-01-768x1369.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180203_144242-01-574x1024.jpeg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">READING, Pa., Dec. 6.\u2014Joseph Seaman, of this city, met a friend on the street today, who had a bottle, which he jokingly said contained old rye, and offered Seaman a drink. Seamon placed the bottle to his mouth, and before he could be stopped drank some of its contents, which proved to be ammonia. His stomach and intestines were so badly burned that he became unconscious at once. His injuries will prove fatal.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><i>From the Collection of The Comtesse DeSpair<br \/>\nThe 1886 Morbid Scrapbook<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, 1886 A Fatal Practical Joke. READING, Pa., Dec. 6.\u2014Joseph Seaman, of this city, met a friend on the street today, who had a bottle, which he jokingly said contained old rye, and offered Seaman a drink. Seamon placed the bottle to his mouth, and before he could be stopped drank some of its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=684\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Fatal Practical Joke<\/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":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accidental","category-poisoning-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}