{"id":28966,"date":"2019-01-13T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28966"},"modified":"2019-01-13T18:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T18:22:26","slug":"someone-stole-a-giant-bronze-hippo-and-the-owners-want-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28966","title":{"rendered":"Someone stole a giant bronze hippo, and the owners want it back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>There&#8217;s a giant bronze hippopotamus missing in England. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 1,500-pound, 6.5-foot cast bronze sculpture was reported stolen Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.police.uk\/news\/appeals-(witnesses-and-missing-people)\/0119\/huge-cast-bronze-hippo-stolen-from-site-near-tunbr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kent police said in a news release<\/a>. The hippo is believed to have been stolen on Wednesday when someone forced their way into Chilstone Garden Ornaments in Tunbridge Wells, police said. Chilstone was founded in 1953 and provides handmade garden ornaments and, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/Chilstoneco\/about\/?ref=page_internal\" target=\"_blank\">the business&#8217; Facebook page<\/a>, has created &#8220;architectural stonework for some of the UK&#8217;s most distinguished client\u00e8le for over 60 years.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We are so sad that someone has stolen our beautiful sculpture,&#8221; the business said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Chilstoneco\/posts\/2254172018153375?__tn__=-R\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a> Saturday. &#8220;We love to show artwork as features in our garden and we are so disappointed that someone would take it.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)There&#8217;s a giant bronze hippopotamus missing in England. The 1,500-pound, 6.5-foot cast bronze sculpture was reported stolen Friday, Kent police said in a news release. The hippo is believed to have been stolen on Wednesday when someone forced their way into Chilstone Garden Ornaments in Tunbridge Wells, police said. Chilstone was founded in 1953 and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}