{"id":337113,"date":"2026-03-09T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:32:07","slug":"no-sir-no-sir-giant-beverley-sheep-statue-is-baa-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337113\/","title":{"rendered":"No sir, no sir \u2013 giant Beverley sheep statue is baa-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a325,000 installation would have featured a metal sheep standing on three bags of wool and been illuminated at night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its developer said it would act as a &#8220;Welcome to Beverley&#8221; feature, referencing the nearby Shepherd&#8217;s Lane and the town&#8217;s farming history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is deliberately quirky and humorous so that it has mass public appeal and is particularly enjoyed by children,&#8221; the application said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But as well as traffic concerns, council officers said they feared it would become a tourist attraction, which would be risky at the &#8220;very busy interchange&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u00a325,000 installation would have featured a metal sheep standing on three bags of wool and been illuminated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-337113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337113","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=337113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}