{"id":24874,"date":"2019-12-21T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=24874"},"modified":"2019-12-20T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:29:54","slug":"scaffolding-santas-help-repair-gii-wellington-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=24874","title":{"rendered":"Scaffolding Santas help repair GII* Wellington Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-24875\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bbc_211219-300x280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" \/>A team of Santas have helped put up scaffolding around the Grade II* listed Wellington Monument on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset ahead of repair work taking place.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC writes:<\/p>\n<p>Scaffolders dressed as Father Christmas have covered the Wellington Monument on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset.<\/p>\n<p>The Grade II* listed, 175ft (53m) triangular obelisk was built in 1817 as a tribute to the Duke of Wellington&#8217;s victory at Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p>The stonework is crumbling and the monument has been fenced off since 2005 due to falling debris.<\/p>\n<p>The National Trust said the project to repair the monument will cost \u00a33.45m and take 18 months to complete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-somerset-50810033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Santas have helped put up scaffolding around the Grade II* listed Wellington Monument on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset ahead of repair work taking place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24876,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24874\/revisions\/24876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}