{"id":499965,"date":"2026-06-15T00:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499965\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T00:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:15:21","slug":"tarzan-brown-statue-dedicated-in-westerly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499965\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan Brown statue dedicated in Westerly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTERLY, R.I. (WJAR) \u2014 A statue honoring Ellison &#8220;Tarzan&#8221; Brown was dedicated at Rooney Park in Westerly Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Brown was a Native American long-distance runner, best known as a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon in the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Several Boston Marathon champions were in attendance at the dedication ceremony who spoke on Brown&#8217;s long-standing legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTERLY, R.I. (WJAR) \u2014 A statue honoring Ellison &#8220;Tarzan&#8221; Brown was dedicated at Rooney Park in Westerly Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499966,"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-499965","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\/499965","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=499965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}