{"id":253683,"date":"2025-12-27T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/253683\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:58:08","slug":"gorilla-statue-appears-by-kennet-and-avon-canal-in-great-bedwyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/253683\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorilla statue appears by Kennet and Avon Canal in Great Bedwyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After he received the statue as a birthday present, Mr Mason&#8217;s thoughts turned to raising money for charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s an organisation called the Bruce Trust, which runs canal boats for the disabled,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We thought a good way of raising some money for them would be to have a gorilla naming ceremony at the Three Tuns in Great Bedwyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everybody put some money in a pot, and we drew out some names, and then we had cheers for the winner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gerald proved the most popular name following the event &#8211; which raised \u00a3220 for the Bruce Trust. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The name honours a scene from the Not the Nine O&#8217;Clock News sketch, which stars Rowan Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Mason added: &#8220;I love the fact he&#8217;s just keeping guard. His expression almost changes due to the light of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everybody who walks past the boat is laughing and smiling. Looking up and seeing a gorilla in the middle of Great Bedwyn on the the Kennet and Avon is not the sort of thing you&#8217;d expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After he received the statue as a birthday present, Mr Mason&#8217;s thoughts turned to raising money for charity.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-253683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115790473020330710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}