{"id":41,"count":9,"description":"Northampton State Hospital was built according to the Kirkbride plan.\u00a0 It received its first patients on August 16, 1858.\u00a0 The hospital reached capacity within weeks and immediately began expanding.\u00a0 Overcrowding undermined the hospital's goal of treating patients with appropriate care, eventually treating up to 2500 patients at a time.\u00a0 It closed in 1993 and was demolished in 2008.","link":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/category\/architecture-and-abandoned\/hospitals\/asylums\/northampton-state-hospital\/","name":"Northampton State Hospital","slug":"northampton-state-hospital","taxonomy":"category","parent":12,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/12"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}