{"id":16850,"date":"2017-05-16T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=16850"},"modified":"2017-05-16T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:58:54","slug":"is-there-any-way-that-these-two-seemingly-opposing-philosophies-can-be-reconciled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/05\/16\/is-there-any-way-that-these-two-seemingly-opposing-philosophies-can-be-reconciled\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there any way that these two seemingly opposing philosophies can be reconciled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a May 12, 2017 New York Times article by Mike Ives ( \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/11\/world\/asia\/myanmar-is-restoring-temples-to-rebuild-its-heritage.html?_r=0\">Quake Propels Competing Visions for Restoring Myanmar\u2019s Temples<\/a>\u201d) about what should be done to restore the Buddhist temples in Bagan, Myanmar\u2014many of which have a checkered conservation past, he notes that the  archaeology department has made the decision not to rebuild damaged  spires. U Thay Zaniya, a monk is quoted as saying, \u201cIn our Buddhist tradition, not having a top on a temple is like having a person without a head. It\u2019s a disgraceful sight.\u201d  If the Buddhist position has equal validity to  the archaeology department\u2019s position, is there any way that these two seemingly opposing philosophies can be reconciled? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a May 12, 2017 New York Times article by Mike Ives ( \u201cQuake Propels Competing Visions for Restoring Myanmar\u2019s Temples\u201d) about what should be done to restore the Buddhist temples in Bagan, Myanmar\u2014many of which have a checkered conservation past, he notes that the archaeology department has made the decision not to rebuild damaged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/05\/16\/is-there-any-way-that-these-two-seemingly-opposing-philosophies-can-be-reconciled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is there any way that these two seemingly opposing philosophies can be reconciled&#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-16850","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\/16850","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=16850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}