{"id":9314,"date":"2024-04-17T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T22:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2024-04-17T08:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T22:08:01","slug":"the-irish-elk-of-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=9314","title":{"rendered":"The Irish Elk of Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one has actually seen a living Irish Elk for 8,000 years but once they were abundant here as well as on much of continental Europe. With an antler span of 3 to 4 m they would have been spectacular to behold.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40 years ago, Cork artist Kevin Holland brought the great Irish Elk back to life as a bronze effigy overlooking the N20 road between Cork and Mallow. For twenty years I\u2019ve been wanting to photograph that stag with never quite the opporunity.<\/p>\n<p>Today I finally have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one has actually seen a living Irish Elk for 8,000 years but once they were abundant here as well as on much of continental Europe. With an antler span of 3 to 4 m they would have been spectacular to behold. Nearly 40 years ago, Cork artist Kevin Holland brought the great Irish Elk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[189,1462,1261,1262,3132,3131,175,140],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aerial","tag-bronze","tag-cork","tag-ireland","tag-irishelk","tag-kevinholland","tag-sculpture","tag-silhouette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions\/9316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}