{"id":689042,"date":"2026-07-13T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:57:08","slug":"herd-of-elephant-sculptures-pop-up-in-windsor-and-slough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689042\/","title":{"rendered":"Herd of elephant sculptures pop up in Windsor and Slough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tattoo artist said she thought often of her close friend Matt Seymour, who was cared for at the hospice before his death in 2023, while painting the elephant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she was particularly pleased to include a McLaren racing car because he had worked for the manufacturer, adding that the company&#8217;s first racing car was developed in Slough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Matt&#8217;s wife, Jess Seymour, who was out on Sunday night putting the elephants in place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she hoped the sculptures would become &#8220;the elephant in the room&#8221;, encouraging people to talk openly about end-of-life care and death \u2013 subjects that are often avoided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is such a fantastic way to open up conversations that are generally difficult to talk about,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tattoo artist said she thought often of her close friend Matt Seymour, who was cared for at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689043,"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-689042","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\/689042","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=689042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}