{"id":124370,"date":"2025-11-08T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/124370\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:54:09","slug":"oxfordshire-county-flower-oak-sculpture-set-to-be-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/124370\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxfordshire county flower oak sculpture set to be completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new artwork depicting a county flower sculptured out of ancient oak is set to be completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Natasha Houseago, who has been the artist in residence in Ducklington, Oxfordshire, since July said she had been working &#8220;one or two days a week on the fantastic ancient piece of oak&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work, which will be fully completed in the village on Saturday, depicts a snake&#8217;s head fritillary &#8211; the rare county flower of Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will make up one part of a trail of pieces, commissioned by the local parish council, which is set to open next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new artwork depicting a county flower sculptured out of ancient oak is set to be completed. Natasha&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-124370","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-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}