On Wednesday June 18th, the day before David W. Dunlap\u2019s article, \u201cA Gilded Monument Is Mysteriously Shedding Its Brand-New Gold\u201d appeared in The New York Times, I was riding in a bus down Fifth Avenue and passed the regilded William Tecumseh Sherman monument glittering in the sunlight. There was something wrong about it. It looked garish and harsh\u2014not at all like the understated monument I had gotten used to seeing over the years. And there was something wrong with it\u2014just not what I perceived. It was shedding its recently applied gilding. Something went terribly wrong in the gilding process and the gold leaf did not properly adhere to the sculpture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Wednesday June 18th, the day before David W. Dunlap\u2019s article, \u201cA Gilded Monument Is Mysteriously Shedding Its Brand-New Gold\u201d appeared in The New York Times, I was riding in a bus down Fifth Avenue and passed the regilded William Tecumseh Sherman monument glittering in the sunlight. There was something wrong about it. It looked … Continue reading “It seemed wrong and it was\u2014just not the way I thought”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":10066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}