{"id":256334,"date":"2010-01-31T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T18:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"1756 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-31T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T18:10:55","slug":"stanley-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/256334","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/canada\/british-columbia\/vancouver\">Vancouver<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/taxonomy\/term\/577\">Canada<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/unusual-monuments\/strange-statues\">Strange Statues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the banks of Copenhagen sits the famous &#8220;Little Mermaid&#8221; sculpture, a nude woman based on a local ballerina &#8211; at least in the face, the body was based on the sculptors wife.\u00a0The sculpture was made in 1913 and has since suffered numerous indignities &#8211; it has been painted numerous times, been decapitated twice, had its arm sawed off, and blown up. Despite this is hasn&#8217;t stopped other sculptors from wanting to copy the famous mermaid.<\/p>\n<p>However those wanting to copy the statue face a serious problem which is that the statue is still under copyright and Copenhagen vigorously enforces it. (Curiously the one in Copenhagen is itself a copy as the sculptor wanted to keep the original for himself, which today is kept by his heirs in an undisclosed location.) When Greenville, Michigan created a half size copy for their towns Danish Heritage celebration, Copenhagen&#8217;s &#8220;Artists Rights Society&#8221; sued them for back taxes. <\/p>\n<p>Vancouver decided to get around this problem in a curious way. By &#8220;updating&#8221; the mermaid with a snazzy new wetsuit complete with snorkel mask and fins, they avoided the copyright issue while making the uniquely Vancouver &#8220;Girl in a Wetsuit&#8221; in 1972. While not as revealing as the one in Copenhagen this girl is far more ready for the water than is Copenhagen&#8217;s &#8220;mermaid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/Girl_in_wet_poop.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, Canada | Strange Statues On the banks of Copenhagen sits the famous &#8220;Little Mermaid&#8221; sculpture, a nude woman based on a local ballerina &#8211; at least in the face, the body was based on the sculptors wife.\u00a0The sculpture was made in 1913 and has since suffered numerous indignities &#8211; it has been painted numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}