{"id":513426,"date":"2026-04-05T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:02:10","slug":"visitors-flock-to-shaun-the-sheep-trail-in-bury-for-free-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513426\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors flock to Shaun the Sheep trail in Bury for free fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun the Sheep first made his debut back in 1995 in Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By 2005, he had branched out on his own and now, with 190 episodes spanning over seven series, the Shaun the Sheep franchise is one of the longest-running animated series on British television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A free sculpture trail &#8211; Find the Flock &#8211; featuring 12 painted models of the animated character has been installed in Bury, Greater Manchester until 30 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nigel Shields, from Bury BID, welcomed the addition of the trail to the area, adding the popular television series lends itself to the humour of the town. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaun the Sheep first made his debut back in 1995 in Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. By&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513427,"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-513426","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\/513426","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=513426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}