{"id":198,"date":"2013-07-09T16:08:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=198"},"modified":"2013-07-09T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:08:19","slug":"green-man-sets-up-home-on-robinswood-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Green man sets up home on Robinswood Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">For those who frequently visit Robinswood Hill they will have noticed a number of new wooden carved, sculptures appearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The latest addition, intended to be called the \u2018green man\u2019, was created \u2018live\u2019 at the successful Funfest event by wood sculpture Andy O\u2019Neil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Andy O\u2019Neil the wood sculptor said: \u201cIn terms of inspiration I really just went with the flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cI was hoping to do a green man, a mythical deity representing rebirth and often associated with spring, but sadly the tree was not quite wide enough, so I took my inspiration from the tree itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cThe donor tree was one from the Hill which had died, but has now been re-born as this sculpture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cEssentially it is a spiral of leaves, acorns and branches that draws people around the sculpture getting them to take it in and the environment around them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Councillor Colin Organ, cabinet member for housing, health and leisure, Gloucester City Council added:\u201dThis is one of a number of sculptures we now have on the Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cWe hope it will provide enjoyment for visitors and be a landmark on the Hill allowing people to orientate themselves a little better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cWe have also secured a heritage lottery fund grant to provide a number of further sculptures on the Hill during the next few years, to help provide way marks and to encourage visitors to explore the Hill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who frequently visit Robinswood Hill they will have noticed a number of new wooden carved, sculptures appearing. The latest addition, intended to be called the \u2018green man\u2019, was created \u2018live\u2019 at the successful Funfest event by wood sculpture Andy O\u2019Neil. Andy O\u2019Neil the wood sculptor said: \u201cIn terms of inspiration I really just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}