{"id":677882,"date":"2026-11-07T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/677882\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:34:08","slug":"bigbury-farmers-giant-beach-message-calls-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/677882\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigbury farmer&#8217;s giant beach message calls for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A farmer has used his tractor to write a giant message of peace in sand ahead of Remembrance Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Tucker, who has been creating large-scale beach artworks for about 20 years, carved the word peace into the sand at Bigbury-on-Sea, in Devon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on memories of seeing soldiers heading off to serve in the Falklands War, Tucker said it had been &#8220;very upsetting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on his 82nd birthday, he said the motivation behind this year&#8217;s artwork was simple: &#8220;We want peace. The most important thing is to have peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A farmer has used his tractor to write a giant message of peace in sand ahead of Remembrance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677883,"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-677882","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\/677882","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=677882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}