{"id":741643,"date":"2026-08-18T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:02:08","slug":"vandals-destroy-cornwall-landmark-giraffe-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741643\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals destroy Cornwall landmark giraffe statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After a chance remark from a friend&#8217;s young daughter about giraffes 11 years ago, I made the decision to create one to peep over my garden wall&#8230; just for fun&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It turns out that my giraffe has been bringing happiness and joy to so many. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m honestly heartbroken at his demise. He was a labour of love and my late husband helped me by creating a sturdy base and finally positioning Julian in the corner of the garden&#8230; so obviously my creation held special and sentimental memories. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I fear that Julian is beyond repair but, rest assured, I definitely intend to create a new giraffe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;After a chance remark from a friend&#8217;s young daughter about giraffes 11 years ago, I made the decision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741643","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=741643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}