{"id":1078,"date":"2012-05-16T23:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2013-03-10T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T18:30:39","slug":"no-cure-for-ugliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"No cure for ugliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1080\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/5455693467_4372787688_b.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1080\" src=\"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/5455693467_4372787688_b-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"5455693467_4372787688_b\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/5455693467_4372787688_b-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/5455693467_4372787688_b.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Elizabeth&#039;s Hospital, circa 1915.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What is perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/real_bostonian\/220025742\/\" title=\"Flickr: St. E's photo\" target=\"_blank\">one of the ugliest buildings in Boston<\/a> is about to get bigger.  The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourtown\/news\/allston_brighton\/2012\/05\/city_oks_plan_calling_for_25m.html\" title=\"Boston.com: St. E's expansion\" target=\"_blank\"> BRA has approved a three-story addition<\/a> to the emergency and urgent care building at St. Elizabeth&#8217;s Medical Center.  The expansion will add 23 beds to the current 252.  A bit of landscaping is also planned, but it will be behind the new addition.  Can&#8217;t have greenery disturb the fortress-like structure looming over Brighton Center.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, when the hospital was seeking another expansion, the architect of the Cardinal Medeiros pavilion admitted he &#8220;wasn&#8217;t proud&#8221; of it.  No kidding. (photo via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/5455693467\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"BPL: St. E's photo 1915\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Public Library<\/a>)<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"\">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-text=\"No cure for ugliness\" data-url=\"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=1078\" >Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is perhaps one of the ugliest buildings in Boston is about to get bigger. The BRA has approved a three-story addition to the emergency and urgent care building at St. Elizabeth&#8217;s Medical Center. The expansion will add 23 beds to the current 252. A bit of landscaping is also planned, but it will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,18,21],"tags":[294,97,113],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brighton","category-brightoncenter","category-new-contruction","tag-brighton","tag-new-construction","tag-st-elizabeths-medical-center"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}