{"id":97,"date":"2012-09-06T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/?p=97"},"modified":"2012-09-21T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T14:20:34","slug":"about-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/about-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"About This Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/curios\" target=\"_blank\">Curios<\/a> are valued for their oddness or rarity, and are generally locked away for safekeeping. Digitizing Brown University Library&#8217;s unique collections affords\u00a0<a title=\"Digital Production Services department homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/\">Digital Production Services<\/a> staff contact with curious artifacts on a daily basis, which can present technical challenges for digitization or description. Items featured here are singled out for their unique properties and for the methods used to digitize them.<\/p>\n<p><cite style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Top banner image: in-situ portrait capture in the McLellan Lincoln room, John Hay Library; alphabet stone engraved by John Howard Benson.<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curios are valued for their oddness or rarity, and are generally locked away for safekeeping. Digitizing Brown University Library&#8217;s unique collections affords\u00a0Digital Production Services staff contact with curious artifacts on a daily basis, which can present technical challenges for digitization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/about-this-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-about-this-blog","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}