{"id":31238,"date":"2025-07-29T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31238\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:24:07","slug":"rebuilt-josiah-wedgwood-statue-to-be-unveiled-in-stoke-on-trent-very-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31238\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilt Josiah Wedgwood statue to be unveiled in Stoke-on-Trent &#8216;very soon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statue demolished during construction of a new road has been rebuilt and will be unveiled in early autumn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Capo sculpture, depicting Burslem-born potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood, had stood at Festival Park in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, since 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was reduced to rubble in 2023 during works to expand the Marina Way roundabout with the city council&#8217;s former deputy leader Daniel Jellyman resigning after it emerged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-64680141\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he gave the go-ahead for its demolition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It would not be returned to its original position, due to the new road, but would be located somewhere else at Festival Park, council leader Jane Ashworth said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statue demolished during construction of a new road has been rebuilt and will be unveiled in early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31239,"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-31238","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\/31238","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=31238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}