{"id":337151,"date":"2026-03-19T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/337151\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:58:08","slug":"new-sheep-sculptures-unveiled-in-shipley-market-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/337151\/","title":{"rendered":"New sheep sculptures unveiled in Shipley market square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finishing touches have been added to five new sheep sculptures which have been installed in Shipley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The limestone sheep, carved by sculptor Dan Jones, have taken up residence in Market Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sculptures have replaced the Shipley Shopper artwork &#8211; a concrete sheep sitting on bench &#8211; which had become damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones said: &#8220;It was really special to be able to capture something with such meaning to mark a new chapter for the market square. I hope the sculptures will be enjoyed \u2013 and played upon &#8211; by generations to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finishing touches have been added to five new sheep sculptures which have been installed in Shipley. The limestone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337152,"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-337151","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\/337151","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=337151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}