{"id":574751,"date":"2025-11-16T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574751\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:00:19","slug":"johnny-hamilton-street-artist-on-a-mission-to-make-bangor-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574751\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Hamilton: Street artist\u00a0on a mission to \u2018make Bangor great again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Former construction worker who rediscovered his love for art during the pandemic is on a high despite an order banning him from talking about cancelled Van Morrison piece\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Johnny Hamilton in front of his Gary Lightbody mural in Bangor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7791b176-b1e9-4023-96f6-4967ef70f1bc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Johnny Hamilton in front of his Gary Lightbody mural in Bangor<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He\u2019s just been crowned Northern Ireland arts personality of the year, and he counts Oasis members, Gary Lightbody and actor Gerard Butler among his fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But Johnny Hamilton has been gagged from talking about the biggest highlight of his career yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former construction worker who rediscovered his love for art during the pandemic is on a high despite an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,1384,77,14991,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-574751","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-design","11":"tag-down-news","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ivan-little","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115561157599959894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574751","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=574751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}