{"id":322171,"date":"2025-08-06T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322171\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:43:10","slug":"floral-tributes-to-be-scattered-at-ozzy-osbournes-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322171\/","title":{"rendered":"Floral tributes to be scattered at Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 30 July, the Osbourne family visited the memorial at the Black Sabbath bench as Ozzy&#8217;s coffin was driven along Broad Street in his home city, where thousands lined the streets in tribute to the Black Sabbath frontman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Central BID now has the job of sorting through the thousands of tributes so they can be catalogued and sent to the Osbournes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the sea of memorabilia are flowers, cuddly toys, artwork, written messages, football scarves, and flags, each separated into individual rows and columns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are, of course, plenty of replica bats, crosses, and band T-shirts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Barrett from Central BID told the BBC that items like toys and memorabilia would be used to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So Ozzy keeps up the good work he likes to promote,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 30 July, the Osbourne family visited the memorial at the Black Sabbath bench as Ozzy&#8217;s coffin was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114981175481108828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}