{"id":524271,"date":"2026-03-09T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524271\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:28:11","slug":"british-ironworks-centres-crane-plea-to-finish-giraffe-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524271\/","title":{"rendered":"British Ironworks Centre&#8217;s crane plea to finish giraffe sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The creators of a 13m (43ft) tall sculpture of a giraffe, made from scrap metal, have appealed for a crane to enable them to finish it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British Ironworks Centre in Shropshire, famous for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-shropshire-37444227\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knife Angel<\/a> that continues to tour the UK, said it was its largest sculpture to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once complete, it will be made from 10,000 pieces of unwanted auto parts, painted with orange and white giraffe markings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will also stand twice the height of the world&#8217;s tallest living giraffe, 12-year-old Forest, who lives at Australia Zoo in Queensland and over 10m (32.8ft) taller than the UK&#8217;s current tallest sculpture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The creators of a 13m (43ft) tall sculpture of a giraffe, made from scrap metal, have appealed for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-524271","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\/524271","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=524271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}