{"id":32751,"date":"2015-03-06T14:15:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=32751"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T14:09:28","slug":"the-general-is-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/03\/the-general-is-coming-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The General is coming home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32753\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32753\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32753\" title=\"150129-010-large\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150129-010-large-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Danek Mozdzenski applies finishing touches to The General.\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Danek Mozdzenski perches on his subject&#8217;s arm to apply finishing touches to The General.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a foundry in Joseph, Oregon, the final coatings of protectant are being applied to an expressive bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen Sir Isaac Brock.<\/p>\n<p>During the week of March 9, when the finish has set and The General is fit to travel, he will be wrapped for protection, put into a shipping &#8220;cradle&#8221; and carefully loaded onto a flatbed truck for the 4,000-kilometre drive across the USA, into Canada and, ultimately, to his permanent home at Brock University.<\/p>\n<p>The General is expected to arrive at the campus sometime during the week of March 16, and will be installed on a plinth in front of the Schmon Tower.<\/p>\n<p>Dates and times will be announced as they become determined, and will be affected by factors such as weather conditions along the route.<\/p>\n<p>Created by renowned Canadian artist Danek Mozdzenski, the sculpture was totally underwritten by a generous gift of more than $1 million by the late David S. Howes, a longtime supporter of Brock and former chair of its board of trustees.<\/p>\n<p>The community is encouraged to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180813074701\/http:\/\/bringthegeneralhome.ca\/page\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this website<\/a> for regular progress updates on The General&#8217;s Journey Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a foundry in Joseph, Oregon, the final coatings of protectant are being applied to an expressive bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen Sir Isaac Brock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[2781,2780,1089,604,363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32751"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66463,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32751\/revisions\/66463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}