{"id":17594,"date":"2017-09-12T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=17594"},"modified":"2017-09-12T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:56:00","slug":"do-we-give-the-public-a-wrong-message-when-we-call-ourselves-dry-cleaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/09\/12\/do-we-give-the-public-a-wrong-message-when-we-call-ourselves-dry-cleaners\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we give the public a wrong message when we call ourselves \u201cdry cleaners\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra S. Levine\u2019s article about the conservation of maps in the New York City Municipal Archives (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/10\/nyregion\/dry-cleaning-the-citys-oldest-maps.html?mcubz=0&amp;_r=0\">\u201cDelicate Job for \u2018Dry Cleaners\u2019: Revitalizing the Maps that Bind the City to its Past\u201d <\/a>, The New York Times, September 12, 2017) is very informative about the processes and procedures that the conservators use to treat fragile maps which have been rolled up and stored in less than ideal conditions for decades. However, she chose to use the conservators\u2019 in-joke that they are \u201cdry cleaners\u201d in her opening paragraph and the headline writer followed suit.  Should we be more careful about how we describe ourselves and our work to non-conservators? Do we give the public a wrong message when we call ourselves \u201cdry cleaners\u201d? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra S. Levine\u2019s article about the conservation of maps in the New York City Municipal Archives (\u201cDelicate Job for \u2018Dry Cleaners\u2019: Revitalizing the Maps that Bind the City to its Past\u201d , The New York Times, September 12, 2017) is very informative about the processes and procedures that the conservators use to treat fragile maps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/09\/12\/do-we-give-the-public-a-wrong-message-when-we-call-ourselves-dry-cleaners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do we give the public a wrong message when we call ourselves \u201cdry cleaners\u201d?&#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-17594","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\/17594","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=17594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}