{"id":28,"date":"2004-04-04T21:15:56","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T21:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2015-07-10T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:25:30","slug":"howard-statue-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2004\/04\/04\/howard-statue-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard statue update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Taylor&#8217;s sculpture of John Howard that <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2004\/02\/24\/john-howard-statue-if-the-boots-dont-fit\/\">I blogged about <\/a> in late February is apparently in storage at the moment until an unveiling at the National Folk Festival over the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also found an <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050930220056\/http:\/\/www.abc.net.au:80\/canberra\/stories\/s1043626.htm\">ABC 666 page <\/a>about the sculpture, which includes two pictures of the statue being removed from Reconcilliation Walk, and a couple of radio interviews with Greg Taylor at the time. The interesting thing about the second interview is that the joking talk about businesses having to &#8216;pay ransom&#8217; to get the statue moved from their premises came back to haunt this last week. A local liberal MP claimed that ActewAGL, the company to first to host the statue outside their shopfront, had been blackmailed into making a donation. Both the sculptor and the CEO of ActewAGL dismissed the claims as ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Taylor&#8217;s sculpture of John Howard that I blogged about in late February is apparently in storage at the moment until an unveiling at the National Folk Festival over the Easter weekend. I&#8217;ve also found an ABC 666 page about the sculpture, which includes two pictures of the statue being removed from Reconcilliation Walk, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,10],"tags":[1378,58,40,1361],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canberra","category-sculpture","tag-canberra","tag-greg-taylor","tag-john-howard","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}