{"id":97,"date":"2011-05-23T06:41:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T06:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=97"},"modified":"2011-05-23T06:41:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T06:41:18","slug":"in-haiti-rescuing-art-amid-the-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/05\/23\/in-haiti-rescuing-art-amid-the-rubble\/","title":{"rendered":"In Haiti: Rescuing Art Amid the Rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So, one afternoon, in the rubble-strewn courtyard of Ste. Trinit\u00e9, I asked architect Magdalena Carmelita Douby, the project&#8217;s registrar, about local attitudes towards our somewhat unusual rescue effort. Her answer came without hesitation: &#8216;We have lost everything except our culture,&#8217; she said calmly. &#8216;We have to protect what is left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This poignant quote is\u00a0from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.conservation-us.org\/blogpost.cfm?threadid=3463&amp;catid=231\">&#8220;In Haiti: Rescuing <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.conservation-us.org\/blogpost.cfm?threadid=3463&amp;catid=231\">Art Amid the Rubble&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Read more about AIC Members Rosa Lowinger and Viviana Dominguez who were deployed to Haiti to assess the murals at The Cathedral of Sainte Trinit\u00e9. Read about their trip in Lowinger&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/culture.wnyc.org\/blogs\/gallerina\/2010\/jul\/26\/haiti-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/culture.wnyc.org\/blogs\/gallerina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gallerina<\/a> blog at the <a href=\"http:\/\/culture.wnyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wnyc.org\/culture<\/a> website.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, one afternoon, in the rubble-strewn courtyard of Ste. Trinit\u00e9, I asked architect Magdalena Carmelita Douby, the project&#8217;s registrar, about local attitudes towards our somewhat unusual rescue effort. Her answer came without hesitation: &#8216;We have lost everything except our culture,&#8217; she said calmly. &#8216;We have to protect what is left. This poignant quote is\u00a0from &#8220;In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/05\/23\/in-haiti-rescuing-art-amid-the-rubble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Haiti: Rescuing Art Amid the Rubble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}