{"id":379094,"date":"2025-12-31T09:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379094\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:17:05","slug":"hulls-giant-rat-sculptures-turning-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379094\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull&#8217;s giant rat sculptures turning heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For most people, the largest ornament in the garden is perhaps a gnome or bird bath, but some have taken it to a whole new level following a charity auction of giant rat sculptures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Mischief of Rats was made up of 45 6ft (1.8m) tall painted statues, displayed as part of a walking trail across Hull in the summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were created to pay tribute to local rock musician Mick Ronson who was a member of 1960s band The Rats before he became David Bowie&#8217;s guitarist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were auctioned off in September, raising \u00a3160,000 for the Daisy Appeal, which supports Cottingham&#8217;s Castle Hill hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here, we hear from some of those who could not resist purchasing a colourful smiley rat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For most people, the largest ornament in the garden is perhaps a gnome or bird bath, but some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-379094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}