{"id":276,"date":"2006-02-01T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=276"},"modified":"2010-01-03T01:44:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:44:52","slug":"great-moments-in-museum-curation-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/02\/great-moments-in-museum-curation-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Great moments in museum curation, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">It can&#8217;t be much fun running a museum these days. One day, <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/01\/great-moments-in-museum-curation.html\">you lose a 38-ton sculpture<\/a>. The next, overambitious junkies are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/arttheft\/story\/0,,1695071,00.html\">lifting your Henry Moores for scrap<\/a>. And the day after that, just when you wonder what else could possibly go wrong, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/news\/story\/0,,1698619,00.html\">a visitor trips over his shoelaces<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident but we are glad that the visitor involved was able to leave the museum unharmed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Conservators are now evaluating how much of the ensuing destruction can be repaired.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">&#8220;They are in very, very small pieces, but we are determined to put them back together.&#8221; <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can&#8217;t be much fun running a museum these days. One day, you lose a 38-ton sculpture. The next, overambitious junkies are lifting your Henry Moores for scrap. And the day after that, just when you wonder what else could possibly go wrong, a visitor trips over his shoelaces. &#8220;It was a most unfortunate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}