{"id":859609,"date":"2026-09-25T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859609\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:08:09","slug":"new-sandhill-crane-statue-unveiled-at-walden-oaks-park-in-decatur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859609\/","title":{"rendered":"New sandhill crane statue unveiled at Walden Oaks Park in Decatur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DECATUR, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WAFF<\/a>) &#8211; A new statue is up in the city, courtesy of the River Clay Fine Arts Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Leaders unveiled the sculpture at Walden Oaks Park, depicting three sandhill cranes in different stages of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Created by Athens Forge, the birds are surrounded by 10 cattails, symbolizing the first decade of the art festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis day has been a year in the making, and it has been a joy and full of excitement to work with Athens Forge to create this amazing sculpture that is specific to Decatur. It\u2019s entitled Cranes 2026,\u201d a leader said. \u201cThey have worked tirelessly for weekends and weekends and weekends to help us give this back to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The permanent fixture kicks off the countdown for River Clay, which takes place Oct. 24 and 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\">Click Here to Subscribe on YouTube:<\/a> Watch the latest WAFF 48 news, sports &amp; weather videos on our YouTube channel!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WAFF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) &#8211; A new statue is up in the city, courtesy of the River Clay Fine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,362904,66291,362900,229,88,362901,362903,57614,57615,362905,362902],"class_list":["post-859609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-athens-forge","tag-decatur","tag-decatur-alabama","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-river-clay-fine-arts-festival","tag-sandhill-cranes","tag-waff","tag-waff-48","tag-waff-48-news","tag-walden-oaks-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859609","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=859609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}