{"id":62,"date":"2004-07-13T00:34:33","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T04:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=62"},"modified":"2004-07-12T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2004-07-12T16:35:22","slug":"what-an-ugly-mug-pun-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"What an Ugly Mug [Pun Intended]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/Northeast\/07\/12\/anti.freeze.death.ap\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rci.rutgers.edu\/~poet\/neabor.jpg\" alt=\"neabor\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet Maryann Neabor.  Maryann is apparently very good at mixing drinks.  Apparently so much so that she managed to mask the sickly-sweet taste of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaco.com\/texaco\/prodsvcs\/anti_freeze_and_coolants.htm\">antifreeze<\/a> by mixing in pineapple juice and maraschino cherries&#8230; a concoction she then gave to her brother-in-law.  Antifreeze is of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cah.com\/library\/antifreeze.html\">very toxic<\/a>, and so the victim <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/Northeast\/07\/12\/anti.freeze.death.ap\/index.html\">died from the poisoning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her defense?  Well, she wasn&#8217;t trying to <strong><em>kill<\/em><\/strong> the man, per se.  She just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/newsflash\/jersey\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-9\/108963894254360.xml&#038;storylist=jersey\">wanted to hurt him a li&#8217;l<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Maryann Neabor only intended to hurt her relative severely enough so that he would have to move into her home &#8211; and she could then take control of his finances, said attorney Craig Mitnick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aww, how very sweet.  (Yeah, that was another pun.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJ woman spikes a drink with antifreeze and kills her brother-in-law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}