{"id":331952,"date":"2025-12-23T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331952\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:30:09","slug":"artist-flies-back-to-coventry-from-us-to-secretly-repair-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331952\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist flies back to Coventry from US to secretly repair mural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Coventry artist has flown back from the US to secretly repair a mural he painted, after it was vandalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artwork depicting two orangutans at Hearsall Common, Earlsdon, was designed by Michael Batchelor in 2021 for a local boy Dylan, who had a rare genetic disorder and died in 2023, aged four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting was vandalised in November, however, after Mr Batchelor spotted a post online from Dylan&#8217;s family, he flew back to fix it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t know he was there doing it so it was a really lovely surprise&#8221;, Dylan&#8217;s grandad, Martin Prue, said. &#8220;Everybody, not just the family, has been really pleased that it&#8217;s back because of what it represents&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coventry artist has flown back from the US to secretly repair a mural he painted, after it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331953,"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-331952","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\/331952","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=331952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}