{"id":40738,"date":"2024-08-23T17:25:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40738"},"modified":"2024-08-23T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:25:33","slug":"artwork-safe-as-somerset-house-fire-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40738","title":{"rendered":"Artwork safe as Somerset House fire contained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Somerset_House_Wiki_Context149.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Somerset_House_Wiki_Context149.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16409\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<h6><em>image for illustration: IHBC Context<\/em><\/h6>\n\n<h3>A fire at Somerset House in central London has been contained after around 125 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out in the west wing\u2026 and the historic landmark will remain closed \u2018until further notice\u2019. There were no artworks in that part of the building, a spokesman said\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 \u2018It&#8217;s too early to comment on the building&#8217;s condition.\u2019 He added the venue will remain closed until further notice, but the Courtauld Gallery will reopen to the public tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier social media post, Somerset House said the venue was closed due to the fire, and all events on Saturday would not take place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cqjl70ny0lqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: IHBC Context A fire at Somerset House in central London has been contained after around 125 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40739,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40738\/revisions\/40739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}