{"id":386461,"date":"2026-04-07T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386461\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:33:08","slug":"wexford-clown-fears-he-will-have-to-quit-performing-after-35-years-due-to-rising-costs-keeping-that-life-alive-is-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386461\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford clown fears he will have to quit performing after 35 years due to rising costs \u2013 \u2018Keeping that life alive is so important\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Giggles The Clown fears he may have to quit performing due to rising costs.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c206e666-e609-4c0c-94f5-c532381333b1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Giggles The Clown fears he may have to quit performing due to rising costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Wexford clown fears he may have to stop performing due to rising costs if he is unable to secure the new Basic Income for Arts scheme (BIA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">John McLoughlin (61) is the face behind \u201cGiggles The Clown\u201d and has been working as a performing clown for more than 35 years, providing entertainment at parties and schools across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giggles The Clown fears he may have to quit performing due to rising costs. A Wexford clown fears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11711,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-386461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-alan-white","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386461","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=386461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}