{"id":234,"date":"2008-10-17T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2008-10-29T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T18:30:22","slug":"athens-state-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/athens-state-alligator","title":{"rendered":"Athens State Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI came across some nice documentation of Athens State Hospital<\/a> which was made available online by Ohio University’s library. Most impressive is Katherine Ziff’s lengthy dissertation Asylum & Community<\/a>, and this collection of old images<\/a>. I was especially pleased to see the alligator in the fountain<\/a>. Till now I STILL didn’t quite believe that an alligator really lived there, even though several sources said so. The story just screamed urban legend to me.<\/p>\n

But now I know the truth and I can finally sleep through the night\u2014no more waking up at 2AM wondering “Did an alligator REALLY live in the fountain at Athens? It CAN’T be true…Can it?”<\/p>\n

A somewhat related item is an online comic about the infamous stain inside the Athens Kirkbride. Darkhorse Comics recently added it to their MySpace profile<\/a>. It’s a little on the spooky side, but it’s October, so I’ll play along:) It is kind of cool to see a Kirkbride drawn like that too. There should be more Kirkbride buildings in comics I think.<\/p>\n

And finally, there will be a presentation tonight (10\/17) at Ohio University’s Ping Center about the history of Athens State Hospital: Halloween Program to Shed Light on The Ridges\u2019 History<\/a>. In spite of the Halloween link, the presentation is meant to “dispel some of the not-so-respectful myths” about the hospital. It’s probably worth attending if you’re in the Athens area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across some nice documentation of Athens State Hospital which was made available online by Ohio University’s library. Most impressive is Katherine Ziff’s lengthy dissertation Asylum & Community, and this collection of old images. I was especially pleased to see the alligator in the fountain. Till now I STILL didn’t quite believe that an […]<\/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":[1,13,32],"tags":[226,103,227],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-pictures","category-web-sites","tag-alligator","tag-athens-state-hospital","tag-comics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}