{"id":244,"date":"2008-11-06T22:03:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=244"},"modified":"2008-11-06T22:03:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:03:40","slug":"freeze-drying-kills-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2008\/11\/06\/freeze-drying-kills-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze-Drying Kills Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 6, 2008<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 9px;border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9626.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"298\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s more than muck that comes with flood water. But we don&#8217;t need to worry about finding any live creepy-crawlies as we unpack the books for repair. Freeze drying not only dries books out but also kills insects. &#8216;Course the dried-out bug is sent back with the book!<\/p>\n<p>Even books that come back looking perfectly fine will need to be inspected page-by-page to make sure there are no surprises. Grit, leaves, and bugs are the most common things that get stuck in books after a flood. I leave the rest to your imagination.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 6, 2008 There&#8217;s more than muck that comes with flood water. But we don&#8217;t need to worry about finding any live creepy-crawlies as we unpack the books for repair. Freeze drying not only dries books out but also kills insects. &#8216;Course the dried-out bug is sent back with the book! Even books that<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2008\/11\/06\/freeze-drying-kills-bugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Freeze-Drying Kills Bugs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,12,13],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}