{"id":159558,"date":"2025-09-21T20:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159558\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:45:13","slug":"troys-newest-mural-pays-homage-to-its-boxing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159558\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy&#8217;s newest mural pays homage to its boxing history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, a new art mural was unveiled in the City of Troy. The three-story work that pays homage to the city\u2019s history was the result of a collaboration with Midwest-based artist Greg Gossel and the Arts Center of the Capital Region.<\/p>\n<p>At the main gateway of the city\u2019s downtown, pastel oranges, yellows and blues draw onlookers toward the center of the mural, which sports a figure wearing boxing gloves, a hat, and a tattoo with the year the city was established. <\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the creative process behind the mural, WAMC&#8217;s Samantha Simmons met with Gossel as he was wrapping up his painting. We began with Gossel describing the mural.<\/p>\n<p>The project was funded by the New York State Downtown Revitalization Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, a new art mural was unveiled in the City of Troy. The three-story work that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-159558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}