{"id":16750,"date":"2017-04-25T08:01:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=16750"},"modified":"2017-04-25T08:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:01:53","slug":"conservation-decisions-and-choices-can-be-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/04\/25\/conservation-decisions-and-choices-can-be-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation decisions and choices can be political"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the April 6, 2017 issue of The New York Times, Rod Nordland wrote about the project to restore Kabul, Afghanistan\u2019s destroyed Darulaman Palace, a 1919 building that combined neo-classical  with Moghul  and other eastern influences (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/05\/world\/asia\/saving-an-afghan-symbol-with-afghans-only.html?_r=0 .\">Saving Pockmarked Palace (Only Afghans Need Apply<\/a>&#8220;). The project is funded by the  government of Afghanistan and all of the people leading and  working on the project are Afghani. President Ashraf Ghani has called the project \u201can exercise in national pride\u201d. The work that the conservator does  may be apolitical, but conservation decisions and choices can be political.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the April 6, 2017 issue of The New York Times, Rod Nordland wrote about the project to restore Kabul, Afghanistan\u2019s destroyed Darulaman Palace, a 1919 building that combined neo-classical with Moghul and other eastern influences (\u201cSaving Pockmarked Palace (Only Afghans Need Apply&#8220;). The project is funded by the government of Afghanistan and all of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/04\/25\/conservation-decisions-and-choices-can-be-political\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conservation decisions and choices can be political&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16750","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\/16750","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=16750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}