{"id":115,"date":"2021-09-01T16:55:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyofmentalheatlhinus.audreys2010.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2021-09-01T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:55:21","slug":"nellie-bly-and-blackwells-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/histmental2021\/nellie-bly-and-blackwells-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Nellie Bly and Blackwell\u2019s Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article from the Washington Post brings to light the work of Nellie Bly, a journalist in the late 1800s. In 1887, Bly committed herself to the asylum on Blackwell&#8217;s Island and discovered the atrocities and mistreatment of patients there. Her investigation is one of the  leading causes of the reforms that Grob talked about in the chapters that we read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2019\/07\/28\/she-went-undercover-expose-an-insane-asylums-horrors-now-nellie-bly-is-getting-her-due\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2019\/07\/28\/she-went-undercover-expose-an-insane-asylums-horrors-now-nellie-bly-is-getting-her-due\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from the Washington Post brings to light the work of Nellie Bly, a journalist in the late 1800s. In 1887, Bly committed herself to the asylum on Blackwell\u2019s Island and discovered the atrocities and mistreatment of patients there. Her investigation is one of the leading causes of the reforms that Grob talked about \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/historyofmentalheatlhinus.audreys2010.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/nellie-bly-and-blackwells-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nellie Bly and Blackwell\u2019s Island&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histmental2021","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}