{"id":133638,"date":"2025-11-11T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/133638\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:06:08","slug":"statue-of-benjamin-britten-unveiled-in-lowestoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/133638\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Benjamin Britten unveiled in Lowestoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A life-sized statue depicting a famous composer as a child has been unveiled in his hometown following a three-year campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bronze sculpture of Benjamin Britten has been installed near the seafront in Lowestoft, opposite the house in which he was born in 1913.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, the creation was made possible after \u00a3110,000 was raised from many &#8220;little donations&#8221; from the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zeb Soanes, vice chairman of the Britten as a Boy project, said the statue was a &#8220;symbol of hope and aspiration&#8221; that will inspire the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A life-sized statue depicting a famous composer as a child has been unveiled in his hometown following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-133638","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-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}