{"id":1846,"date":"2025-11-03T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:38:27","slug":"a-photographer-spent-18-months-documenting-an-la-psychiatric-hospital-in-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/a-photographer-spent-18-months-documenting-an-la-psychiatric-hospital-in-the-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"A Photographer Spent 18 Months Documenting an LA Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feature-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2025\/11\/03\/photographer-merrick-morton-la-california-psychiatric-hospital-1970s\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"840\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-card-large size-card-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Black-and-white photo showing a man in a hospital gown tied to a chair, looking distressed, and another close-up of a man pinching his nose, appearing stressed or emotional.\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Merrick-Morton-Psychiatric-Hospital01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1979, photographer Merrick Morton (@merrickmortonphoto) received a California state grant to document the Volunteer Program at a psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles, a project that led him to return again and again over the next year and a half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2025\/11\/03\/photographer-merrick-morton-la-california-psychiatric-hospital-1970s\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1979, photographer Merrick Morton (@merrickmortonphoto) received a California state grant to document the Volunteer Program at a psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles, a project that led him to return again and again over the next year and a half. [Read More]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}