{"id":41157,"date":"2025-09-24T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41157\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:35:08","slug":"reighton-roundabout-sheep-sculptures-daubed-with-red-crosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41157\/","title":{"rendered":"Reighton roundabout sheep sculptures daubed with red crosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Groups responsible for putting up the flags have told the BBC they are motivated by pride and patriotism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But others have said it feels provocative at a time when tensions are running high across England over the issue of immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cross said he respected the St George&#8217;s flag, but said they should not be painted on public sculptures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am all for having flags on every building, but as for daubing with thick red paint I am totally against it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you want to fly the flag, fly one on the top of your house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Yorkshire Council was approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Groups responsible for putting up the flags have told the BBC they are motivated by pride and patriotism.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41158,"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-41157","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\/41157","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=41157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}