{"id":9320,"date":"2018-09-03T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9320"},"modified":"2018-09-06T13:46:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:46:38","slug":"200-years-of-knowledge-up-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/03\/200-years-of-knowledge-up-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"200 Years of Knowledge Up In Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-45398084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from BBC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\">Brazil museum fire: Funding cuts blamed as icon is gutted<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AAbKbIs2feQ\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Officials in Brazil have blamed lack of funding for a huge fire that has ravaged the country&#8217;s National Museum.<\/p>\n<p>One of the largest anthropology and natural history collections in the Americas was almost totally destroyed in Sunday&#8217;s fire in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>This included the 12,000-year-old remains of a woman known as &#8220;Luzia&#8221; &#8211; the oldest discovered in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>There had also been a string of complaints about the dilapidated state of the 200-year-old museum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We never had adequate support,&#8221; its deputy director said after the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Experts had warned for years of a serious fire risk to the building<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-45398084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at BBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BBC Brazil museum fire: Funding cuts blamed as icon is gutted \ufeff Officials in Brazil have blamed lack of funding for a huge fire that has ravaged the country&#8217;s National Museum. One of the largest anthropology and natural history collections in the Americas was almost totally destroyed in Sunday&#8217;s fire in Rio de Janeiro. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}