{"id":859445,"date":"2026-09-24T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859445\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:00:13","slug":"a-bronze-sculpture-will-be-created-out-of-melted-down-robert-e-lee-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859445\/","title":{"rendered":"A bronze sculpture will be created out of melted-down Robert E. Lee sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">When the towering statue of Robert E. Lee on horseback was removed from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia, and melted down, it opened up an opportunity for a new monument in that space made with the melted bronze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Charlottesville organization<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipcville.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Swords into Plowshares<\/a> selected a proposal by artist <a href=\"https:\/\/danakingart.com\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana King<\/a> in collaboration with the firm Model of Architecture Serving Society, or MASS, to create &#8220;Rooted,&#8221; a towering bronze baobab tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here &amp; Now&#8217;s Scott Tong speaks with King and <a href=\"https:\/\/modelofarchitecture.org\/people\/jha-d-amazi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jha D. Amazi<\/a> of MASS about the project and about reimagining how monuments and memorials are built.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on September 24, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the towering statue of Robert E. Lee on horseback was removed from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-859445","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859445","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=859445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}