{"id":15841,"date":"2016-10-23T07:27:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T12:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=15841"},"modified":"2016-10-23T07:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T12:27:10","slug":"yes-toto-the-price-of-conservation-can-be-quite-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/10\/23\/yes-toto-the-price-of-conservation-can-be-quite-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes Toto, the price of conservation can be quite high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the October 20, 2016 issue of The New York Times, Graham Bowley wrote about the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Kickstarter crowd funding campaign to raise $300,000 to study and conserve its pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the movie The Wizard of Oz (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/20\/arts\/design\/smithsonian-seeks-300000-to-save-dorothys-ruby-slippers.html?_r=0\">\u201cSmithsonian Seeks $300,000 to Save Dorothy\u2019s Ruby Slippers\u201d)<\/a>. After the article was published, a number of laypeople expressed great astonishment to me about the amount. Yes Toto , the price of conservation can be quite high&#8211; but the end result is worth the expense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the October 20, 2016 issue of The New York Times, Graham Bowley wrote about the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Kickstarter crowd funding campaign to raise $300,000 to study and conserve its pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the movie The Wizard of Oz (\u201cSmithsonian Seeks $300,000 to Save Dorothy\u2019s Ruby Slippers\u201d). After the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/10\/23\/yes-toto-the-price-of-conservation-can-be-quite-high\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yes Toto, the price of conservation can be quite high&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841","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=15841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}