{"id":13832,"date":"2015-11-20T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13832"},"modified":"2015-11-11T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:14:01","slug":"jack-the-ripper-identified-as-poet-francis-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13832","title":{"rendered":"Jack the Ripper Identified as Poet Francis Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z112015francisthompson_jackripper.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"648\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The famous poet <strong>Francis Thompson<\/strong> was the even more infamous <strong>Jack the Ripper<\/strong>. \u00a0Twenty years of research has led <strong>Richard Patterson<\/strong> to this conclusion. \u00a0<strong>Patterson<\/strong> sites some of the evidence that identifies <strong>Thompson<\/strong> as <strong>the Ripper<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thompson<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; had surgical experience and hinted at his double life in some of his poems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;kept a dissecting knife under his coat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;was taught a rare surgical procedure that was found in the mutilations of more than one of the Ripper victims&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the full story check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/jack-ripper-renowned-poet-francis-thompson-teacher-article-1.2425706\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Daily News: Jack the Ripper&#8217;s Real Identity<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous poet Francis Thompson was the even more infamous Jack the Ripper. \u00a0Twenty years of research has led Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,72,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-history","category-horror","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13834,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832\/revisions\/13834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}