{"id":7,"date":"2010-05-14T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/visiting-the-west-virginia-state-penitentiary\/"},"modified":"2010-05-14T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T01:57:00","slug":"visiting-the-west-virginia-state-penitentiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/visiting-the-west-virginia-state-penitentiary\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the West Virginia State Penitentiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the Former State Pen in Moundsville, WV is apparently a super-ultra haunted place. It was shut down over 15 years ago and the tourism department has opened it up to &#8220;guests&#8221;.  They have an overnight event billed as a ghost hunt on the weekends during the spring and summer. 8pm to 6am, bring your own illumination. Needless to say, I handed over the cash without a second thought.<\/p>\n<p>I went with a friend of mine from college and her husband. It was awesome to reconnect with  old friends, and even more so at a sweet place like this. After our tour and pizza (yes, they fed us) I went to work. Many open shutter-flash-light painting shots later (about 5:15am) I called it a night.<\/p>\n<p>I met a lot of cool dudes that evening. I had an amazing time. I got to be in an environment that I haven&#8217;t been in for quite some time. I think I nailed these shots. I&#8217;m thinking about having an exhibition of them. I&#8217;m that pleased.. Here&#8217;s one, and the rest will come soon. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/S-yxJkYN7BI\/AAAAAAAAAIY\/aepA0F9SV5E\/s1600\/Evening%2BAt%2BThe%2BOld%2BPen.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/S-yxJkYN7BI\/AAAAAAAAAIY\/aepA0F9SV5E\/s400\/Evening%2BAt%2BThe%2BOld%2BPen.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a92010 DivineMayhemStudios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Former State Pen in Moundsville, WV is apparently a super-ultra haunted place. It was shut down over 15 years ago and the tourism department has opened it up to &#8220;guests&#8221;. They have an overnight event billed as a ghost hunt on the weekends during the spring and summer. 8pm to 6am, bring your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/visiting-the-west-virginia-state-penitentiary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visiting the West Virginia State Penitentiary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40I5Y-7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}