{"id":148423,"date":"2025-09-11T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148423\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:25:10","slug":"new-statue-of-computing-pioneer-ada-lovelace-gets-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148423\/","title":{"rendered":"New statue of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace gets green light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statue is currently being cast in Basingstoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With a fair wind, we hope to have the statue erected in the next few months,&#8221; Mr Rooney added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mould has already been used to cast a statue of Lovelace, commissioned by property developers, for a building in Westminster in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Rooney said the sculptors who created it, Mary and Etienne Millner, had agreed to allow the mould to be used to replicate the original statue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Without that, the cost of the project would have been at least two or three times higher, so we are very grateful to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The has been entirely privately funded, Mr Rooney added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the community interest company had raised \u00a350,000 so far and was hoping to raise a further \u00a350,000 through crowdfunding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statue is currently being cast in Basingstoke. &#8220;With a fair wind, we hope to have the statue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-148423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}