{"id":364365,"date":"2026-04-05T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:46:12","slug":"visitors-flock-to-shaun-the-sheep-trail-in-bury-for-free-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364365\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors flock to Shaun the Sheep trail in Bury for free fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun the Sheep first made his debut back in 1995 in Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By 2005, he had branched out on his own and now, with 190 episodes spanning over seven series, the Shaun the Sheep franchise is one of the longest-running animated series on British television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A free sculpture trail &#8211; Find the Flock &#8211; featuring 12 painted models of the animated character has been installed in Bury, Greater Manchester until 30 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nigel Shields, from Bury BID, welcomed the addition of the trail to the area, adding the popular television series lends itself to the humour of the town. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaun the Sheep first made his debut back in 1995 in Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. By&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364366,"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-364365","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\/364365","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=364365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}