{"id":581332,"date":"2026-05-13T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581332\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:03:09","slug":"jersey-government-defends-removing-graffiti-from-public-toilets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581332\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey government defends removing &#8216;graffiti&#8217; from public toilets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey artist Ben Robertson, known as bokraworld, has previously worked with the government to paint a mural on a public toilet, including a display near Corbiere Lighthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he &#8220;totally agrees&#8221; with public art but &#8220;it has to go through processes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We&#8217;re in a system where you have to have rules and regulations you know or else it could be anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because it was a flower doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s acceptable or any different to a tag or a name, this art&#8217;s subjective right, or beauty&#8217;s subjective, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s acceptable just because it&#8217;s a flower.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey artist Ben Robertson, known as bokraworld, has previously worked with the government to paint a mural on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581333,"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-581332","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\/581332","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=581332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}