{"id":418119,"date":"2026-02-10T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418119\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:12:08","slug":"rochester-cathedral-hosts-exhibition-of-near-life-size-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418119\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester Cathedral hosts exhibition of near life-size whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Large models of three sperm whales are hanging from the nave&#8217;s ceiling in Rochester Cathedral from Tuesday, as part of an award-winning art exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are the creation of artist Tessa Campbell Fraser, made using recycled materials such as fishing nets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The models are 5.2m (17ft), 4.6m (15ft) and 3m (9.8ft) tall, and will be on display until 7 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The installation is in Kent after being premiered at Winchester Cathedral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Large models of three sperm whales are hanging from the nave&#8217;s ceiling in Rochester Cathedral from Tuesday, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418120,"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-418119","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\/418119","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=418119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}