{"id":737583,"date":"2026-08-14T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737583\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:44:09","slug":"replacement-reader-sculpture-unveiled-on-lyme-regis-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737583\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement Reader sculpture unveiled on Lyme Regis trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A sculpture in gardens overlooking Dorset&#8217;s Jurassic Coast has been replaced after being vandalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The steel wire artwork of the seated figure, entitled Reader, was created to sit on a park bench by artist Vik Westaway as part of a trail in Langmoor Gardens, Lyme Regis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new version was commissioned by the town council after the original was &#8220;repeatedly vandalised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After it was unveiled in the gardens which overlook the town, Westaway said the new sculpture &#8220;feels part of the place now&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sculpture in gardens overlooking Dorset&#8217;s Jurassic Coast has been replaced after being vandalised. The steel wire artwork&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737584,"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-737583","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\/737583","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=737583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}