{"id":151,"date":"2008-09-13T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-09-13T14:35:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T18:35:59","slug":"worcester-state-hospital-scrapbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/worcester-state-hospital-scrapbook","title":{"rendered":"Worcester State Hospital Scrapbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/09\/13\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Worcester State Hospital\" width=\"484\" height=\"315\" \/><a title=\"Insane Asylums Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/forum\/\">Forum<\/a> member Swansod made a post today about <a title=\"I found the building layout!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=40&amp;t=1345\">a small treasure trove of newspaper clippings<\/a> he found while researching <a title=\"Worcester State Hospital Pictures and History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/worcester\/\">Worcester State Hospital<\/a>. The clippings are from the 1930s, &#8217;60s and &#8217;90s. You can see reproductions on Swansod&#8217;s Zenfolio pages: <a title=\"WSH Related Articles\" href=\"http:\/\/swansod.zenfolio.com\/p75967673\" target=\"_blank\">WSH Related<\/a>. (Hint: click on a thumbnail, then hover your mouse cursor over the larger version to get the download link. Download the file for a more legible version.)<\/p>\n<p>Some high points from the articles include a map identifying each part of the Kirkbride (pictured above), mention of some films made by superintendent Dr William Bryan (which I&#8217;m trying to find more about), descriptions of various renovations over the years, LSD experiments, pictures of the hospital&#8217;s operating room, and information about the first phase of demolition which happened shortly after the Kirkbride fire in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forum member Swansod made a post today about a small treasure trove of newspaper clippings he found while researching Worcester State Hospital. The clippings are from the 1930s, &#8217;60s and &#8217;90s. You can see reproductions on Swansod&#8217;s Zenfolio pages: WSH Related. (Hint: click on a thumbnail, then hover your mouse cursor over the larger version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,28,5,13],"tags":[84,29],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-demolition","category-news","category-pictures","tag-forum","tag-worcester-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}