{"id":73,"date":"2021-08-24T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bonnieakkerman.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2021-08-24T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:43:00","slug":"eastern-state-virginia-as-a-leader-in-asylum-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/uncategorized\/eastern-state-virginia-as-a-leader-in-asylum-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern State \u2013 Virginia as a leader in asylum care"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/bonnieakkerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/EasternstatementalhospitalinVirginia.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bonnieakkerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/EasternstatementalhospitalinVirginia.jpeg 800w, http:\/\/bonnieakkerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/EasternstatementalhospitalinVirginia-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/bonnieakkerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/EasternstatementalhospitalinVirginia-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Eastern State Hospital<\/strong>\u00a0is a psychiatric hospital in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Williamsburg,_Virginia\">Williamsburg<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\">Virginia<\/a>. It is the oldest psychiatric hospital in this country. Built in 1773, it was the first public facility in the United States\u00a0constructed solely for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The original building had burned but was reconstructed in 1985.  Percival Goodhouse \u00a0was one of the first patients admitted to the Eastern State Hospital after its opening on October 12, 1773.  This is link to the hospital&#8217;s official historical website which was created by students at the college of William and Mary :<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.esh.dmhmrsas.virginia.gov\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern State Hospital\u00a0is a psychiatric hospital in\u00a0Williamsburg,\u00a0Virginia. It is the oldest psychiatric hospital in this country. Built in 1773, it was the first public facility in the United States\u00a0constructed solely for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The original building had burned but was reconstructed in 1985. Percival Goodhouse \u00a0was one of the \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bonnieakkerman.com\/uncategorized\/eastern-state-virginia-as-a-leader-in-asylum-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eastern State \u2013 Virginia as a leader in asylum care&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}