{"id":1200,"date":"2016-06-13T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2016-06-13T19:13:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:13:14","slug":"preserving-historic-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"Preserving historic documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1201\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1201\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/201-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/201-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/201-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/201-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/201-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Judy Hall, R. J. Hall, John Burcham and Diane Burcham, all of Leesburg,\u00a0look at a\u00a0restored book of records that had been laminated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During downtown Leesburg\u2019s First Friday event this month, scores of people got a glimpse of a war being quietly waged every day in the Loudoun County Circuit Court archives: the battle against the ravages of time, including mold, bookworms, rust and acid-laden cellophane tape.<\/p>\n<p>About 160 people stepped through the doors of Leesburg\u2019s 122-year-old courthouse \u2014 away from the sounds of al fresco diners and street musicians \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-highlights-the-preservation-of-the-countys-historic-documents\/2016\/06\/10\/364a2a12-2e5f-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">to learn how the county\u2019s historic records are being preserved and restored<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-highlights-the-preservation-of-the-countys-historic-documents\/2016\/06\/10\/364a2a12-2e5f-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em>, June 12, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During downtown Leesburg\u2019s First Friday event this month, scores of people got a glimpse of a war being quietly waged every day in the Loudoun County Circuit Court archives: the battle against the ravages of time, including mold, bookworms, rust and acid-laden cellophane tape. About 160 people stepped through the doors of Leesburg\u2019s 122-year-old courthouse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preserving historic documents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,22,59,10,14,3],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-courts","tag-downtown","tag-events","tag-history","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}