{"id":505609,"date":"2026-10-23T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505609\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:14:12","slug":"the-egg-highlights-whimsical-history-of-natomas-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505609\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Egg’ highlights whimsical history of Natomas area"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mike<\/a>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n

It’s not green eggs and ham.<\/p>\n

Nor is it Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall.<\/p>\n

But there is a whimsical and true story of an egg hiding in plain sight in the Natomas area of Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Located at Westhampton Park, the eye-catching sight is appropriately named “The Egg” and is the work of artist Sayako Dairiki, and it is meant to represent the history of the area that surrounds it.<\/p>\n

Commissioned in 2005 as part of the Sacramento Art in Public Places program, a large bird first catches your eye on the oval sculpture.<\/p>\n

The mosaics embedded on the surface of the granite and stone foundation feature plants and animals native to the area.<\/p>\n

The meaning of the art displayed on the egg is meant to depict the transition of the area from its “wild and agrarian past to its present, suburban incarnation,” according to indigoarch.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want to see it for yourself?<\/p>\n

Watch in the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 It’s not green eggs and ham. Nor is it Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[195452,1592,27634,38572,26715,42979,180198,195447,195458,473,195459,93802,195449,26553,4317,91961,195453,195446,26866,5392,195456,121,195454,195445,357,123,122,195444,195448,195455,195451,195443,315,195442,195450,195457],"class_list":["post-505609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-agrarian-past","tag-animal","tag-art-history","tag-california-art","tag-egg","tag-explore-outdoors","tag-granite","tag-granite-foundation","tag-highlight-whimsical-history","tag-kcra","tag-large-bird","tag-mosaic-art","tag-native-animals","tag-native-plants","tag-natomas","tag-natomas-area","tag-outdoor-art","tag-oval-sculpture","tag-passage","tag-public-art","tag-public-places-program","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-art","tag-sacramento-art-in-public-places","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sayako-dairiki","tag-stone-foundation","tag-stone-foundation-feature-plant","tag-suburban-natomas","tag-the-egg","tag-time","tag-westhampton-park","tag-whimsical-art","tag-whimsical-egg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}