{"id":609955,"date":"2026-08-31T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609955\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:24:10","slug":"the-wests-sculptures-from-the-stunning-to-the-slightly-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609955\/","title":{"rendered":"The West&#8217;s sculptures, from the stunning to the slightly odd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The south west is well known for its artistic culture &#8211; Bristol is the home of street art and Glastonbury hosts one of the biggest music festivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This might be one of the reasons why you can find so many interesting sculptures in the area: from the huge Willow Man, now sadly falling into disrepair, on the M5, to the Malmesbury monk and more recent creations in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here is our list of where to find these varied and fascinating sculptures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The south west is well known for its artistic culture &#8211; Bristol is the home of street art&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609956,"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-609955","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\/609955","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=609955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}