{"id":270961,"date":"2025-11-19T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270961\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:14:09","slug":"glasgow-artist-swaps-duke-of-wellington-statues-traffic-cone-for-paper-reading-pigeon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270961\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow artist swaps Duke of Wellington statue&#8217;s traffic cone for paper-reading pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist &#8211; who has been dubbed the Scottish Banksy for his style by some admirers &#8211; declined to comment on the new artwork when asked by BBC Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His Instagram post, showing pictures of it, stated: &#8220;The dignified and undignified beasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Located: well, youse (sic) know where.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It depicts a pigeon reading a pun-filled newspaper, with stories about a seagull gang, a park bench &#8220;poop crisis&#8221; and a sports story about a pigeon race. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The post was greeted enthusiastically on social media, with comments saying it should win &#8220;the Scottish Art of the Year award&#8221; and that it should remain permanently in place.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artist &#8211; who has been dubbed the Scottish Banksy for his style by some admirers &#8211; declined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-270961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270961","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=270961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}