{"id":10444,"date":"2015-04-01T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:37:43","slug":"the-body-of-mr-charles-b-rosna-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10444","title":{"rendered":"The Body of Mr. Charles B. Rosna, 1904"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span><em>In 1848 The Fox Sisters first reported that spirits were communicating through rappings in their Hydesville, New York home. At the height of their fame, they admitted they&#8217;d fabricated their story, and died soon after in abject povery. Nearly ten years after Kate, the youngest and last remaining sister, died, the body of a peddler was found in their basement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They call me The Body in the Cellar.<br \/>\nI was the proof that what they heard<br \/>\nwas real. But they ruined their careers<br \/>\nmany years ago, confessing their hoax.<\/p>\n<p>They said, on stage, they made it up.<br \/>\nAnd now I\u2019ve been found; it\u2019s my turn<br \/>\nto speak. I am the corpse in the floor,<br \/>\nburied and fragile. The girls once tied <\/p>\n<p>an apple to a string; dropped and dragged<br \/>\nit across the floor. Tell me\u2014if you<br \/>\ndon\u2019t believe\u2014how they thought up<br \/>\nmurder, knew I was tucked in <\/p>\n<p>the foundation, under a blanket of concrete.<br \/>\nLook at my skull and tell me they made<br \/>\nit up; tell all the things they claimed<br \/>\nto never know. I\u2019ve lived here a long time.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10400\">Katherine Johnsen<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>________In 1848 The Fox Sisters first reported that spirits were communicating through rappings in their Hydesville, New York home. At the height of their fame, they admitted they&#8217;d fabricated their story, and died soon after in abject povery. Nearly ten years after Kate, the youngest and last remaining sister, died, the body of a peddler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-2Is","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10445,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions\/10445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}