{"id":46,"date":"2010-04-21T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T21:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-04-21T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T21:49:52","slug":"eastern-state-penitentiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Eastern State Penitentiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Eastern State Penitentiary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57319697@N00\/3633362791\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3397\/3633362791_b53b6a2e50.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern State Penitentiary\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gm-map\" style=\"position: relative;height: 200px; width: 200px;\"><iframe name=\"gm-map-1\" allowfullscreen src=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?geo_mashup_content=render-map&amp;map_data_key=307763f49437a360658268d6e1b88780&amp;name=gm-map-1&amp;map_content=contextual&amp;error_comment=&lt;!-- Geo Mashup found no objects to map in this context--&gt;\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"ESP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.easternstate.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern State Penitentiary<\/a> in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is recognized as a National Historic Landmark for being the world&#8217;s first large-scale penitentiary. It opened in 1829 and operated until 1965. This prison became a model by which all modern prisons follow.<\/p>\n<p>In 1842 author Charles Dickens wrote in his book <em><a title=\"American Notes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.victorianweb.org\/authors\/dickens\/pva\/pva344.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Notes<\/a><\/em> the following about his visit to Eastern State Penitentiary.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My firm conviction is that, independent of the mental anguish it occasions \u2014 an anguish so acute and so tremendous, that all imagination of it must fall far short of the reality \u2014 it wears the mind into a morbid state, which renders it unfit for the rough contact and busy action of the world. It is my fixed opinion that those who have undergone this punishment, MUST pass into society again morally unhealthy and diseased.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eastern State Penitentiary provides the backdrop for the asylum in the movie <a title=\"12 Monkeys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114746\/\" target=\"_blank\">12 Monkeys<\/a> starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/12monkbg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65\" title=\"12 Monkeys\" src=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/12monkbg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today the prison operates as a &#8220;maintained ruin&#8221; museum and is open to the public for tours.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_State_Penitentiary\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mwbhsgb13xU\" target=\"_blank\">Travel Channel Video on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"US History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/tour\/tour_easternstate.htm\" target=\"_blank\">US History Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ken Fager's Photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kenfagerdotcom\/sets\/72157619758908557\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr Photoset<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Search\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=eastern+state&amp;ss=2\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr Search for &#8220;Eastern State&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Directions\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=eastern+state+penitentiary&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;hq=eastern+state+penitentiary&amp;hnear=Philadelphia,+PA&amp;cid=0,0,8007075510433756589&amp;ei=V3LQS9PHEKOINcXamasP&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_result&amp;ct=image&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CAkQnwIwAA\" target=\"_blank\">Get directions to Eastern State Penitentiary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is recognized as a National Historic Landmark for being the world&#8217;s first large-scale penitentiary. It opened in 1829 and operated until 1965. This prison became a model by which all modern prisons follow. In 1842 author Charles Dickens wrote in his book American Notes the following about his visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,18,22],"tags":[26,28,29,57,151,248,298,317,344,349,350,367,432],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}