{"id":98881165,"date":"2011-04-06T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/new-york-city-welcomes-giant-yellow-teddy-bear\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T05:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:42:56","slug":"new-york-city-welcomes-giant-yellow-teddy-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/new-york-city-welcomes-giant-yellow-teddy-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Welcomes Giant Yellow Teddy Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Apple will soon be welcoming a big teddy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Swiss artist Urs Fischer has created a unique 23-foot tall yellow teddy bear sculpture that will call New York City home for the next five months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bear will rest at the base of the Seagram Building on Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can catch a glimpse of the bear day or night; the oversized desk lamp the bear rests under actually lights up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture will be auctioned off on May 11 during the Post-War &amp; Contemporary sale. The bear, which weighs in at 35,000 pounds, could sell for over $10 million, according to early estimates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/04\/us-newyork-teddybear-idUSTRE73119Y20110404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Reuters <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nImage:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nyclovesnyc.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NYC Loves NYC <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Apple will soon be welcoming a big teddy. &nbsp; Swiss artist Urs Fischer has created a unique 23-foot tall yellow teddy bear sculpture that will call New York City home for the next five months. &nbsp; The bear will rest at the base of the Seagram Building on Fifth Avenue. &nbsp; Visitors can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897705,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881165\/revisions\/98897705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}