{"id":72,"date":"2009-11-21T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T23:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-01-21T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T01:13:58","slug":"old-slate-chalkboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/21\/old-slate-chalkboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Slate Chalkboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Slate Chalkboard<br \/>\n    How do you restore the surface of an old, 4\u2019 X3\u2019  slate chalkboard?  It used to be in a one room school house for almost 100 years and then in a storage barn for the past 25 years.  It appears to be in good shape, except for dirt and debris on the surface.<br \/>\n    I\u2019m thinking of vacuuming off the dirt and dust, but what then?  Hot soapy water, use a fine grit paper to sand it, or wipe it off with a damp cloth?  I\u2019d prefer not to use any harsh chemicals.<br \/>\n    Once it is clean, what would be the best finish to still use the slate as a chalkboard in our game room?<br \/>\n    We\u2019re going to mount it on the wall in portrait orientation, so that young and old can reach it for drawing, keeping game scores,  and whatever comes to mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Slate Chalkboard How do you restore the surface of an old, 4\u2019 X3\u2019 slate chalkboard? It used to be in a one room school house for almost 100 years and then in a storage barn for the past 25 years. It appears to be in good shape, except for dirt and debris on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}