{"id":345983,"date":"2026-09-14T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345983\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:42:11","slug":"wild-center-unveils-new-yorks-first-permanent-troll-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345983\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Center unveils New York\u2019s first permanent troll sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; The Wild Center is now home to New York state\u2019s first permanent troll sculpture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The giant wooden figure, named \u201cPatrick Sapling,\u201d sits on the center\u2019s 115-acre campus in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sculpture shows a troll kneeling among local boulders, eyes closed, lifting a living sugar maple tree toward the sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">International recycle artist Thomas Dambo and his team built the piece this summer with help from community volunteers, using mostly reclaimed and recycled materials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildcenter.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wildcenter.org\/\">Wild Center<\/a> says fans around the world travel to see these trolls, and this one will now have a permanent home in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; The Wild Center is now home to New York state\u2019s first permanent troll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129536,129537,9,24,55,54,56,1777],"class_list":["post-345983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-couple-hit-by-car","tag-couple-killed-in-multi-vehicle-crash","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}