{"id":49161,"date":"2014-02-17T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=49161"},"modified":"2014-02-17T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:10:18","slug":"74000-deal-to-create-statue-of-pindling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/02\/74000-deal-to-create-statue-of-pindling","title":{"rendered":"$74,000 Deal To Create Statue of Pindling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49162\" alt=\"christie-johnston\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/christie-johnston.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A $74,000 contract was signed by the government and artist Peter Johnston to construct a life-size statue of the country\u2019s first Prime Minister, Sir Lynden Pindling.<\/p>\n<p>The bronze statue, which will be 5ft 6ins tall and will be mounted on a four-foot platform (making the structure more than nine feet high) will be put up in the Sir Lynden Pindling International Airport on July 10, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Transport and Aviation Glenys Hanna-Martin said Sir Lynden\u2019s life and work is inextricably linked to the history of the modern Bahamas and the major advancements of the Bahamian people.<\/p>\n<p>This commissioning, she said, will cause him to join other iconic figures who were freedom fighters in their own countries and who are being similarly memorialised.<\/p>\n<p>The family of Sir Lynden were involved in the selection process of Mr Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnston said it was an honour to be chosen as the sculptor of such a piece that will stand as a part of the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has signed a $74,000 deal to produce a life-size statue of the country\u2019s first Prime Minister, Sir Lynden Pindling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":49162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1049,40,168],"class_list":["post-49161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-artist","tag-government","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}