{"id":797242,"date":"2026-07-13T09:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797242\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:21:09","slug":"herd-of-elephant-sculptures-pop-up-in-windsor-and-slough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797242\/","title":{"rendered":"Herd of elephant sculptures pop up in Windsor and Slough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tattoo artist said she thought often of her close friend Matt Seymour, who was cared for at the hospice before his death in 2023, while painting the elephant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she was particularly pleased to include a McLaren racing car because he had worked for the manufacturer, adding that the company&#8217;s first racing car was developed in Slough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Matt&#8217;s wife, Jess Seymour, who was out on Sunday night putting the elephants in place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she hoped the sculptures would become &#8220;the elephant in the room&#8221;, encouraging people to talk openly about end-of-life care and death \u2013 subjects that are often avoided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is such a fantastic way to open up conversations that are generally difficult to talk about,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tattoo artist said she thought often of her close friend Matt Seymour, who was cared for at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-797242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797242","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=797242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}