{"id":668595,"date":"2026-10-29T06:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668595\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:36:17","slug":"meet-yaajin-lake-macquaries-new-giant-owl-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668595\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Yaajin, Lake Macquarie&#8217;s new, giant owl sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wangi Wangi in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, has a few claims to fame.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it the hometown of renowned Australian artist Sir William Dobell, its traditional place name, wontee wontee, is believed to mean &#8220;place of many owls&#8221; in Awabakal.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this local history has been brought to life as part of a giant owl sculpture out the front of Wangi Wangi Public School, which will be part of the region&#8217;s new public art &#8216;Owl Trail.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>ABC Newcastle reporter Laurise Dickson dropped in to chat to some of the students who created it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wangi Wangi in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, has a few claims to fame. Not only is it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[283185,115639,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,283183,283184,283182],"class_list":["post-668595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-aboriginal-history","tag-art-installation","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lake-macquarie","tag-public-school","tag-wangi-wangi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668595","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=668595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}