{"id":266827,"date":"2026-01-04T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266827\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:58:07","slug":"bob-dylan-statue-news-perfect-duluth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266827\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan Statue News &#8211; Perfect Duluth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectduluthday.com\/2024\/06\/01\/build-a-goddamn-bob-dylan-statue-already\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on record<\/a> saying, \u201cSo help me, if Hibbing punks Duluth on this, I am going to freak out.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The sculptor Thomas Page is offering this life-size statue to Hibbing for $60,000 and says \u201cit could be bolted down in front of City Hall in two hours.\u201d Page indicated he would be willing to make six statues for worldwide placement, saying, \u201cOne of the other sculptures could be placed in Duluth \u2026 If Hibbing wanted one, we could factor in that Duluth would not have one for three years. But I also understand if you invest money, you don\u2019t want someone down the road to also have one.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>OK so he\u2019s playing Hibbing and Duluth against each other here. Duluth City Council: make this happen and buy the statue out from under Hibbing\u2019s nose. As Page says, \u201cAs far as cultural tourism, I think you would make your money back in twelve months.\u201d Or, we could build our own statue 10 times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectduluthday.com\/2023\/03\/23\/the-committee-for-building-a-giant-colossal-statue-of-bob-dylan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bigger<\/a>, and make it back in three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am on record saying, \u201cSo help me, if Hibbing punks Duluth on this, I am going to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,17535,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-266827","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-bob-dylan","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115837187023406325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266827","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=266827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}