{"id":10910,"date":"2025-07-20T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10910\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:42:09","slug":"north-shields-giant-artworks-spark-amazingly-positive-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10910\/","title":{"rendered":"North Shields giant artworks spark &#8216;amazingly positive&#8217; reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two giant murals created as part of a town&#8217;s 800th anniversary celebrations have had a positive impact, the art festival&#8217;s organisers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are the first of a total of eight large-scale works on blank walls on locations around North Shields, in North Tyneside, over the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organised by Elevation, they are part of a festival marking its history from a small village of simple huts &#8211; or shiels &#8211; into a thriving harbour town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The completed two have sparked hundreds of likes on social media with comments being &#8220;overwhelmingly positive&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two giant murals created as part of a town&#8217;s 800th anniversary celebrations have had a positive impact, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-10910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}