{"id":88158,"date":"2017-02-06T05:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88158"},"modified":"2017-02-06T05:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:27:43","slug":"mold-repair-work-beginning-at-mark-twains-historic-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/06\/mold-repair-work-beginning-at-mark-twains-historic-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Mold repair work beginning at Mark Twain&#8217;s historic home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88159\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2946415165_2b03d355a4_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88159\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2946415165_2b03d355a4_o.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Twain House &amp; Museum in Connecticut. (Photo: Ed Schipul\/Flickr)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2946415165_2b03d355a4_o.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2946415165_2b03d355a4_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2946415165_2b03d355a4_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2946415165_2b03d355a4_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Twain House &amp; Museum in Connecticut. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eschipul\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Schipul\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HARTFORD, Conn.\u2014Mould is threatening thousands of artifacts in the Mark Twain House &amp; Museum in Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cour.at\/2l7JoJP\" target=\"_blank\">Hartford Courant<\/a> reports the &#8220;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&#8221; author&#8217;s historic home in Hartford is undergoing an extensive remediation effort to clean the damage.<\/p>\n<p>The mould was first discovered in 2015 and impacts at least 5,000 of the museum&#8217;s 16,000 artifacts, including furniture and some first editions of Twain&#8217;s works.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was blamed on a faulty HVAC system and leaky roof that have since been repaired. The roughly $1 million project has been largely paid for using taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>The mould-removal work begins Feb. 13 and should last three to four months.<\/p>\n<p>Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, lived with his family in the home from 1874 to 1891.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARTFORD, Conn.\u2014Mould is threatening thousands of artifacts in the Mark Twain House &amp; Museum in Connecticut. The Hartford Courant reports &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9094,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-human-interest","category-travel","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}