{"id":83,"date":"2008-06-14T02:57:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T06:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-06-17T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T14:49:53","slug":"more-on-the-lunatic-asylum-uproar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/more-on-the-lunatic-asylum-uproar","title":{"rendered":"More on the &#8216;Lunatic Asylum&#8217; Uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with the theme of my <a title=\"Lunatic Asylum T-Shirts and Protest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/lunatic-asylum-t-shirts-and-protest\">previous post<\/a>, I thought I&#8217;d put the spotlight on a very thoughtful and fair take on the matter written by a gentleman named Don Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Moore comes from the side taking strong offense at use of the word &#8220;lunatic&#8221;. By looking beyond the word however, he&#8217;s found a better understanding of the Jordans&#8217; activities and sees real value in some of the efforts they&#8217;ve made (although this doesn&#8217;t mean he agrees with everything they do).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can read his thoughts here: <a title=\"Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mattersofthemind.info\/stigma2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum<\/a>, but I want to direct your attention especially to this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rebecca and her father have attempted to create a facility in the community that uses its history to teach us lessons about the past while it struggles to find an economic model that will support its existence.  Can anyone guess the interest and financial support that would be created by calling it the Weston Mental Health Museum?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with the theme of my previous post, I thought I&#8217;d put the spotlight on a very thoughtful and fair take on the matter written by a gentleman named Don Moore. Mr Moore comes from the side taking strong offense at use of the word &#8220;lunatic&#8221;. By looking beyond the word however, he&#8217;s found a [&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":[1,3],"tags":[183,133,25,39],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-preservation","tag-lunatic","tag-trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum","tag-weston","tag-weston-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}