{"id":69623,"date":"2025-10-10T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69623\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:07:07","slug":"loros-elephant-sculptures-sell-for-286000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69623\/","title":{"rendered":"LOROS elephant sculptures sell for \u00a3286,000 at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Remember Me, an elephant sculpture displaying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0mlwk2k0nxo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">names of loved ones<\/a> who passed away, was gifted to the hospice by people whose bids totalled \u00a329,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">LOROS hoped the trail and auction sale would boost the coffers of the hospice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn0zg37gp61o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the face of &#8220;real financial challenges&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the auction, Camilla Barrow, acting CEO at LOROS, said: &#8220;We are absolutely blown away by the total raised &#8211; it&#8217;s a staggering amount and that&#8217;s all thanks to the incredible generosity of these supporters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank them all so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Barrow said the trail had helped &#8220;shine a light&#8221; on hospice care at a time &#8220;when we need it most&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This magnificent total is a step towards securing our future, but we still have a mammoth hill to climb,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember Me, an elephant sculpture displaying the names of loved ones who passed away, was gifted to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69624,"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-69623","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\/69623","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=69623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}