{"id":15466,"date":"2025-09-11T07:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15466\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:31:07","slug":"rspb-saltholme-unveils-new-memorial-phoenix-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15466\/","title":{"rendered":"RSPB Saltholme unveils new memorial phoenix sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A phoenix memorial sculpture has been installed in the walled garden of a nature reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors to RSPB Saltholme, Stockton, can pay for individual feathers and have them engraved in dedication to someone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 5ft (1.5m) tall phoenix was created by Andrew McKeoghan out of galvanised steel and corten steel for the flames below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Francis, nature reserve manager, said he was &#8220;thrilled&#8221; to have the sculpture in the walled gardens as a symbol of remembrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A phoenix memorial sculpture has been installed in the walled garden of a nature reserve. Visitors to RSPB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15467,"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-15466","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\/15466","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=15466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}