{"id":657458,"date":"2025-12-27T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657458\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:23:14","slug":"gorilla-statue-appears-by-kennet-and-avon-canal-in-great-bedwyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657458\/","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":657459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-657458","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-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115790571288789802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657458","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=657458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}