{"id":141154,"date":"2025-11-15T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141154\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:59:07","slug":"york-bear-statue-plaque-returns-a-year-after-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141154\/","title":{"rendered":"York bear statue plaque returns a year after disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;It was desperately sad to see an important and much-loved piece of local history ripped away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic that someone seems to have done the decent thing and returned it so that it can be put back where it belongs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the plaque <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2e71pl4yrjo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disappeared last year<\/a>, North Yorkshire Police released an appeal describing the statue as a &#8220;prominent and much-loved local landmark&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chalfonts homes were built in the 1960s but it is not clear why the bear was placed in the residential area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking after the plaque&#8217;s disappearance last year, Mr Fenton said: &#8220;It&#8217;s one of these strange stories that no-one knows why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The bear looks sad and lonely but it&#8217;s a striking statue.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: &#8220;It was desperately sad to see an important and much-loved piece of local history ripped away.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141155,"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-141154","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\/141154","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=141154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}