{"id":476,"date":"2009-08-29T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=476"},"modified":"2018-10-30T21:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:23:18","slug":"henryton-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Henryton Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my passions that I rarely get the chance to indulge is urban exploration.\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of an activity for the young, but when my buddy told me about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henryton_State_Hospital\" target=\"_blank\">Henryton hospital complex<\/a> up near Baltimore, I really didn\u2019t see any options.\u00a0 I had to go.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSo I strapped on my little backpack and put batteries into my old caving mag light and set out with my buddy to traipse around Moldy Asbestos Central and breathe deeply for six hours.<\/p>\n<p>The place is stripped clean.\u00a0 None of that wonderful Chernobyl stuff where it looks like people just ran out with a moment\u2019s notice\u2026 Something that makes UE so much fun when you\u2019re in 22 and crawling around abandoned West Virginia mining towns and pretending you\u2019re in a version of <em>Aliens<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s also wide open to the elements, and to people.\u00a0 The place is crowded.\u00a0 The above 30-set wander around outside and the idiot 20-somethings and teenagers crawl around inside.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes me an idiot, I suppose.\u00a0 And my friend, who insisted we explore the \u201cdarkest areas\u201d and crawl around a few steam tunnels, gleefully pushing aside huge yellow bags marked \u201cOh my god!\u00a0 Fucking asbestos retards!\u00a0 Get out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a great day, and I\u2019ve made up my mind to return and play airsoft.\u00a0 Whatever that is.\u00a0 Shooting people with guns and not worrying about breaking Commandments, I guess.\u00a0 Except I\u2019ll probably tie them to the top half of a dutch door and go into <em>Silence of the Lambs<\/em> mode.\u00a0 Night vision goggles, girl\u2019s dress, deep voice\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I took a zillion pictures and posted them in the forums.\u00a0 You can view them all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/forums\/index.php\/topic,4348.0.html\" target=\"_blank\">right here.<\/a>\u00a0 There&#8217;s also more history on the site at that link.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my passions that I rarely get the chance to indulge is urban exploration.\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of an activity for the young, but when my buddy told me about the Henryton hospital complex up near Baltimore, I really didn\u2019t &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=476\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Henryton Exploration<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[403,145,144],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cult-culture","tag-cult-culture","tag-henryton","tag-ue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}