{"id":297309,"date":"2025-11-20T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297309\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:31:08","slug":"telford-sculptor-made-wooden-bear-for-girl-9-after-cancer-all-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297309\/","title":{"rendered":"Telford sculptor made wooden bear for girl, 9, after cancer all-clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was hoping that Dulcie would ask for a really nice birdhouse, a bath, a really nice bench,&#8221; she told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Debbie added: &#8220;She said that her spirit animal is a bear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A bear represents being brave and being fierce and being strong, even though sometimes you may not feel like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said that Dulcie was still on a small treatment, which would continue into the new year, but added that 2026 would be a chance for her to be a &#8220;normal child&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Watson created the sculpture within a few hours in Dulcie&#8217;s garden with wood donated by the nearby Apley Estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is very little process, way less than anybody would ever hope for,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll turn up and the lump of wood is in front of me, I&#8217;ll envisage it in my head and that&#8217;s it, I just cut lumps off with the chainsaw until it&#8217;s the right shape.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was hoping that Dulcie would ask for a really nice birdhouse, a bath, a really nice bench,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-297309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297309","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=297309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}