{"id":26734,"date":"2015-04-03T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T13:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ianference-nearly-a-decade-ago-i-took-the-tunnel\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:52:06","slug":"ianference-nearly-a-decade-ago-i-took-the-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ianference-nearly-a-decade-ago-i-took-the-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-26734 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ianference-nearly-a-decade-ago-i-took-the-tunnel\/attachment\/26735\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n9c4r54mbJ1tausx6o1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianference.tumblr.com\/post\/92944078763\/nearly-a-decade-ago-i-took-the-tunnel-system-at\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">ianference<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nearly a decade ago, I took the tunnel system at Rockland State Hospital to the gymnasium\/theatre building. \u00a0After photographing the gym, I noticed a panel removed, leading under the stage. \u00a0Crawling under the stage, I reached a point where there was a hole in the floor &#8211; and directly beneath the hole, a bank of lockers. \u00a0I dropped down onto the lockers, and found myself in a room disconnected from the staircases inside the gym building &#8211; which turned out to be the machine room for the pin setters for a completely untouched bowling alley. \u00a0Unused in decades based on the used scoresheets still sitting on the alley\u2019s tables, this was a place time had forgotten &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ianference.tumblr.com\/post\/84328430798\/bowling-shoes-in-the-long-abandoned-bowling-alley\"><b>bowling shoes still on the rack in a dark back corner<\/b><\/a>; a billiards table that looked like it was just waiting for some players. \u00a0But the real attraction were the four dilapidated wooden lanes themselves; a testament to a time when recreational therapy was considered an important part of the healing process. \u00a0Today\u2019s psychiatric facilities &#8211; designed with the notion of hurrying a patient through as quickly as possible and discharging them &#8211; rarely have such appointments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smu.gs\/1k2Tgys\"><b>Prints available here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ianference: Nearly a decade ago, I took the tunnel system at Rockland State Hospital to the gymnasium\/theatre building. \u00a0After photographing the gym, I noticed a panel removed, leading under the stage. \u00a0Crawling under the stage, I reached a point where there was a hole in the floor &#8211; and directly beneath the hole, a bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26736,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734\/revisions\/26736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}