{"id":129228,"date":"2025-11-11T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129228\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:07:09","slug":"statue-of-benjamin-britten-unveiled-in-lowestoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129228\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Benjamin Britten unveiled in Lowestoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A life-sized statue depicting a famous composer as a child has been unveiled in his hometown following a three-year campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bronze sculpture of Benjamin Britten has been installed near the seafront in Lowestoft, opposite the house in which he was born in 1913.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, the creation was made possible after \u00a3110,000 was raised from many &#8220;little donations&#8221; from the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zeb Soanes, vice chairman of the Britten as a Boy project, said the statue was a &#8220;symbol of hope and aspiration&#8221; that will inspire the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A life-sized statue depicting a famous composer as a child has been unveiled in his hometown following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129229,"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-129228","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\/129228","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=129228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}