{"id":28169,"date":"2016-08-06T12:27:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T17:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=28169"},"modified":"2016-08-06T12:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T17:27:59","slug":"new-lucy-statue-replaces-horrific-hellbeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=28169","title":{"rendered":"New Lucy Statue Replaces Horrific Hellbeast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celeron, New York’s medium-term regional nightmare is finally over<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There’s a new Lucy in town.<\/p>\n

Lucille Ball’s hometown of Celoron, NY is welcoming a brand new bronze statue of the actress on Saturday, Aug. 6 and sculptor Carolyn Palmer is anxiously anticipating how her statue will be received.<\/p>\n

“I’ve lived and breathed every second of Lucy for the last nine months,” Palmer tells The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the unveiling Saturday (Aug. 6), which would have been Ball’s 105th birthday. Palmer’s statue is replacing a previous statue, which was nicknamed “Scary Lucy” and frightened residents so much they petitioned to get it removed.<\/p>\n

Palmer’s version Ball stands proudly on her Hollywood star, clad in a polka-dot dress, pearls and heels with her hair curly and coiffed. The sculptor said the statue is a total of 7 feet tall in its entirety. She said she contemplated making the statue even taller, but she “didn’t want [Ball] so unaccessible to the public.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new statue isn’t great, but it’s a vast improvement over zombie lobotomized alcoholic Amelia Earhart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See for yourself:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Progress!<\/p>\n

(Previously.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celeron, New York’s medium-term regional nightmare is finally over: There’s a new Lucy in town. Lucille Ball’s hometown of Celoron, NY is welcoming a brand new bronze statue of the actress on Saturday, Aug. 6 and sculptor Carolyn Palmer is anxiously anticipating how her statue will be received. “I’ve lived and breathed every second of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2696,1130,1695],"class_list":["post-28169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lucille-ball","tag-statues","tag-weird-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28175,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169\/revisions\/28175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}