{"id":2029,"date":"2010-08-11T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2010-08-11T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:00:04","slug":"misery-janes-family-papers-diaries-photos-of-which-there-is-no-copy-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/misery-janes-family-papers-diaries-photos-of-which-there-is-no-copy-in-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Misery! Jane&#8217;s family papers, diaries, photos, of which there is no copy in the universe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;were sitting safe in the securest corner of our basement.<\/p>\n<p>Until we let one sprinkler hit a window. Which apparently needs caulk. <\/p>\n<p>I am taking a break right now: my aching back&#8212;we are doing an Arno Flood style rescue of soaked diaries and photo albums. A corner of our basement is wet; and we are talking about historic photos&#8212;from a relative serving the US military in and out of Germany back in the 1930&#8217;s. Things like submarine drydocks, now-lost ships under way&#8230;just amazing things. Not to mention hourly weather observations in the north US in the 1920&#8217;s or 30&#8217;s&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And the irreplaceable family stuff. Birth certificates. Including information on a great-grandmother who lacks public records. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, I tell you, water is a pernicious thing. We now have a dehumidifier, a potent one, running in that corner of the basement, and we are drying things out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;were sitting safe in the securest corner of our basement. Until we let one sprinkler hit a window. Which apparently needs caulk. I am taking a break right now: my aching back&#8212;we are doing an Arno Flood style rescue of soaked diaries and photo albums. A corner of our basement is wet; and we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}