{"id":218,"date":"2013-08-29T16:01:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/2013\/08\/29\/hermann-hospital-sweetheart\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T18:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T18:35:38","slug":"hermann-hospital-sweetheart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2013\/08\/29\/hermann-hospital-sweetheart\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermann Hospital Sweetheart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Philip Montgomery, archivist<br \/>\nA few months ago, Dr. Adrian Melissinos was searching for nursing photos when she discovered &#8220;Sweetheart&#8221; the donkey. Today, I had to find the photo of this early Hermann Hospital mascot. I love that the photographer, who remains unknown, made an effort to capture this donkey&#8217;s personality.\u00a0 What is even more intriguing is the background of the photo.\u00a0 The location was a puzzle.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcgmedia\/2013\/08\/ic86-hospital-history-nurse-school-p-box2-sweetheart-f.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-1028\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcgmedia\/2013\/08\/ic86-hospital-history-nurse-school-p-box2-sweetheart-f.jpg?w=183\" \/><\/a> The back of the photo reads &#8220;Hospital sweetheart grazing in back of original hospital. Note donkey&#8217;s home in background.&#8221;<br \/>\nSince this photo is in IC 86 Hermann Hospital Archive records, I knew the hospital mentioned in the note is Hermann, but the view is unusual. Digging in the box I found an answer. This picture shows the home of Sweetheart and the screened in porches of the hospital wing devoted to nurses housing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcgmedia\/2013\/08\/ic86-hospital-history-nurse-school-p-box2-hhporch-f.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-1034\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcgmedia\/2013\/08\/ic86-hospital-history-nurse-school-p-box2-hhporch-f.jpg?w=559\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe screen porches are gone today and so is Sweetheart.\u00a0 I doubt if there is a enough grass remaining in the area to provide a snack for Sweetheart.\u00a0 Still, I love the idea that Hermann Hospital had a mascot who was loved and cared for. Who could resist those ears?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Philip Montgomery, archivist A few months ago, Dr. Adrian Melissinos was searching for nursing photos when she discovered &#8220;Sweetheart&#8221; the donkey. Today, I had to find the photo of this early Hermann Hospital mascot. I love that the photographer, who remains unknown, made an effort to capture this donkey&#8217;s personality.\u00a0 What is even more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2013\/08\/29\/hermann-hospital-sweetheart\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospitals","category-images"],"authors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}