{"id":7891,"date":"2013-05-12T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2013-05-12T18:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T23:16:07","slug":"the-seductiveness-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/05\/12\/the-seductiveness-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The seductiveness of art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The May 12, 2013 \u201cLives\u201d page of The New York Times Magazine features \u201cObject Love\u201d, an essay by Paul Gordon, a technician for a Los Angeles-based sculpture conservator which expresses so well the seductive qualities of art\u2014- those qualities which led so many of us to choose conservation as a profession as it allowed us to hold and touch works of art. One wonders how many young people reading Gordon\u2019s phrases like \u201cthere\u2019s real magic\u201d; \u201cas I moved to the arch of her back, my stroke turned to a caress\u201d; \u201conly a fool could fail to feel the desire, the spirit inside such beauty\u201d; and \u201cI have witnessed the miracles. I have seen them happen under my own hand\u201d will be drawn to conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The May 12, 2013 \u201cLives\u201d page of The New York Times Magazine features \u201cObject Love\u201d, an essay by Paul Gordon, a technician for a Los Angeles-based sculpture conservator which expresses so well the seductive qualities of art\u2014- those qualities which led so many of us to choose conservation as a profession as it allowed us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/05\/12\/the-seductiveness-of-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The seductiveness of art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":7938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7891","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\/7891","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=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}