{"id":907684,"date":"2026-09-27T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907684\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:00:10","slug":"weston-super-mare-cardboard-pier-sculpture-felled-after-wind-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907684\/","title":{"rendered":"Weston-super-Mare cardboard pier sculpture felled after wind hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of a giant cardboard model has fallen victim to a sea breeze. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The six-storey-high art installation, inspired by Weston-Super-Mare&#8217;s crumbling Birnbeck pier, was put up on Saturday by local people under the instruction of artist Olivier Grosset\u00eate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tower began to lean at about 07:00 BST on Sunday and a decision was made for safety reasons to topple some of it early, project leaders said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rest of the structure was dismantled at 15:00 as planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of a giant cardboard model has fallen victim to a sea breeze. The six-storey-high art installation, inspired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-907684","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\/907684","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=907684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}