{"id":1178,"date":"2014-03-23T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2014-03-23T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T15:17:13","slug":"ralph-graves-suicide-attempt-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/ralph-graves-suicide-attempt-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Graves&#8217; Suicide Attempt (1889)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ralph GRAVES,<\/strong> professor of mathematics at the State University, attempted to commit suicide at Raleigh, NC, at the house of his brother-in-law, <strong>Spier WHITAKER<\/strong>, by cutting his throat with a penknife. \u00a0He had been in bad health for months and had at time shown symptoms of derangement. \u00a0He resigned his work at the University last February. \u00a0His wounds are not believed to be fatal.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Source: Roanoke Beacon, 19 July 1889. \u00a0Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph GRAVES, professor of mathematics at the State University, attempted to commit suicide at Raleigh, NC, at the house of his brother-in-law, Spier WHITAKER, by cutting his throat with a penknife. \u00a0He had been in bad health for months and had at time shown symptoms of derangement. \u00a0He resigned his work at the University last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,27],"tags":[1174,1175],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roanoke-beacon","category-wake","tag-graves-ralph","tag-whitaker-spier"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-j0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}