{"id":292,"date":"2013-05-12T17:10:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T07:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2013-05-12T17:10:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T07:10:55","slug":"sky-whale-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Sky Whale Canberra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was Canberra&#8217;s gift to itself for the Centenary celebrations. Personally I think another big party on the Lake would have been better received. However it was commissioned to a former Canberra artist Patricia Piccinini by the ACT Government to design the balloon for Canberra&#8217;s 100th birthday. With a $300K price tag something more conventional might have sufficed, like a huge candle on top of Parliament house. However judge for yourself on its artistic merit. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/skywhale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/skywhale-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"skywhale\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/skywhale-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/skywhale.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was Canberra&#8217;s gift to itself for the Centenary celebrations. Personally I think another big party on the Lake would have been better received. However it was commissioned to a former Canberra artist Patricia Piccinini by the ACT Government to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/?p=292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}