{"id":602600,"date":"2026-09-16T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602600\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:34:08","slug":"eau-claire-sculpture-tour-looks-for-help-to-let-sunny-stay-eye-on-eau-claire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602600\/","title":{"rendered":"Eau Claire Sculpture Tour looks for help to let &#8220;Sunny Stay&#8221; | Eye On Eau Claire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) &#8211;\u00a0The Eau Claire Sculpture Tour is raising funds to keep one popular rotating sculpture in the community permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Sunny is the dog sculpture downtown outside the U.S. Bank building. The sculpture was created by artist Alex Zamesin and is made entirely from recycled rubber tires.<\/p>\n<p>Sunny was a late addition to the Eau Claire Sculpture Tour and is on temporary display, but the tour is now raising money to purchase the sculpture and keep Sunny where he is.<\/p>\n<p>According to Visit Eau Claire, Sunny is one of the most photographed stops on the sculpture tour.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to raise $18,000 to purchase the sculpture. <a href=\"https:\/\/givebutter.com\/sunny-stays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> for details on how to donate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a story idea? Let us know\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqow.com\/site\/forms\/news_tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) &#8211;\u00a0The Eau Claire Sculpture Tour is raising funds to keep one popular rotating sculpture in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,59875,501,156,296970,111,43,139,69,38],"class_list":["post-602600","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-chippewa-valley","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-eye-on-eau-claire","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602600","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=602600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}