{"id":9171,"date":"2018-09-04T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9171"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T21:52:39","slug":"museum-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9171","title":{"rendered":"Museum in flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tragic piece of news from this weekend escaped my attention. Brazil&#8217;s National Museum and its collection of some 20 million artifacts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/brazil-museum-fire-1.4809275\">going up in flames<\/a> in a devastating fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/brazil-museum-fire-1.4809275\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9172\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180903095636-01-brazil-museum-fire-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180903095636-01-brazil-museum-fire-exlarge-169.jpg 780w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180903095636-01-brazil-museum-fire-exlarge-169-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180903095636-01-brazil-museum-fire-exlarge-169-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just artifacts. One thing mentioned was irreplaceable written and audio records, which likely have not yet been digitized, of indigenous languages no longer spoken.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of devastation becomes clear from aerial photos, which show that almost nothing remained between the building&#8217;s exterior walls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9173\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/brazil-museum-from-air.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/brazil-museum-from-air.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/brazil-museum-from-air-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is almost incomprehensible that such a disaster could take place in a national museum. The loss&#8230; it&#8217;s beyond belief.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9171' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tragic piece of news from this weekend escaped my attention. Brazil&#8217;s National Museum and its collection of some 20 million artifacts, going up in flames in a devastating fire. And it&#8217;s not just artifacts. One thing mentioned was irreplaceable written and audio records, which likely have not yet been digitized, of indigenous languages no <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9171' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-40-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9176,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions\/9176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}