{"id":67070,"date":"2016-07-26T21:45:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-gets-blue-jay-sculpture\/"},"modified":"2016-07-27T03:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T03:45:33","slug":"mancos-gets-blue-jay-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-gets-blue-jay-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos gets Blue Jay sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:62c616ed-a165-402a-9fda-493bedf97f60 --><\/p>\n<p>Folk artist and wood sculptor Dave Sipe turned an old, damaged tree in front of the Mancos Performance Center into a symbol of school spirit last week.<\/p>\n<p>K-12 dean of students and athletic director Health Showalter said that due to the risk of falling limbs, the tree was cut, leaving just around 12-feet of the trunk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat way instead of having to get rid of the whole tree we could do something fun with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After reaching out to Sipe, Showalter contacted the booster club, which agreed to foot the bill for local artist\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>While there are still thoughts of adding a stain or finish to the carving, it\u2019s already drawn attention around town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did a good job,\u201d said Showalter. \u201cI thought it was interesting, and there were a bunch of people that came to look at it and take pictures, so it\u2019s something fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Sipe creates art from old tree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67070"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}