{"id":2808,"date":"2023-08-18T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2022-12-13T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:10:13","slug":"the-titanic-kit-is-a-contemporary-sculpture-designed-by-tony-stallard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/18\/the-titanic-kit-is-a-contemporary-sculpture-designed-by-tony-stallard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Titanic Kit is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Tony Stallard."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Completed in 2009, it is a bronze and steel sculpture of the RMS Titanic, 14 metres tall and 4 metres wide and takes the form of an oversized Airfix plastic model kit and has a number of components recognizable as parts from the RMS Titanic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Stallard, the artwork would symbolize the importance of Belfast as an industrial pioneer during the era when the Titanic was constructed. In addition, the sculpture would serve as a contemporary tribute as such to the shipbuilders and shipbuilding industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you want to learn more about the history of Belfast? See this site on my <a href=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/maritime-titanic-belfast\/\">Titanic Quarter &amp; Maritime Belfast<\/a> tour!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g222c31\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g222c31 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0288-scaled.jpg\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed in 2009, it is a bronze and steel sculpture of the RMS Titanic, 14 metres tall and 4 metres wide and takes the form of an oversized Airfix plastic model kit and has a number of components recognizable as parts from the RMS Titanic. According to Stallard, the artwork would symbolize the importance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-34"],"blocksy_meta":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Titanic-KIT-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}