{"id":98015,"date":"2025-10-24T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/98015\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:48:08","slug":"rebuilt-josiah-wedgwood-statue-to-be-unveiled-in-stoke-on-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/98015\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilt Josiah Wedgwood statue to be unveiled in Stoke-on-Trent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capo was created by artist Vincent Woropay for the 1986 National Garden Festival and was installed at Etruria Hall in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After it was demolished, the structure was restored by Hanley-based heritage construction firm Alliance Technical Services, using many of the original bricks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said it had worked closely with the family of Mr Woropay, who died in 2002, to &#8220;ensure the sculpture&#8217;s distinctive character and craftsmanship have been restored&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The unveiling will be attended by the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, Steve Watkins, and the artist&#8217;s widow, Chloe Chard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Capo was created by artist Vincent Woropay for the 1986 National Garden Festival and was installed at Etruria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98016,"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-98015","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\/98015","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=98015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}