{"id":455145,"date":"2026-03-03T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455145\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:33:08","slug":"peter-rabbit-chosen-as-design-for-2027-worcester-public-art-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455145\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Rabbit chosen as design for 2027 Worcester public art trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sara Matthews, who is leading the project for St Richard&#8217;s, said: &#8220;We can&#8217;t wait to see our fantastic fluffle of rabbits standing among Worcester&#8217;s iconic landmarks in summer 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Residents will remember how the city felt when we were joined giraffes, elephants and a happy huddle of penguins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to recreate that magic all over again, bringing art trail goers into the city in their droves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Discussing why Peter Rabbit had been chosen as the design, she said: &#8220;We often get asked how we choose each sculpture and this was quite easy in a year which will mark the 125th anniversary of the first publication of Beatrix Potter&#8217;s The Tale of Peter Rabbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Peter Rabbit is one of the most loveable characters in the world, charming generations with his adventurous spirit, curiosity, and just the right amount of mischief.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sara Matthews, who is leading the project for St Richard&#8217;s, said: &#8220;We can&#8217;t wait to see our fantastic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455146,"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-455145","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\/455145","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=455145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}