{"id":83689,"date":"2026-06-17T07:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83689"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:53:05","slug":"jesus-virgin-mary-statues-left-looking-like-goth-rock-band-after-amateur-artist-bungles-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/jesus-virgin-mary-statues-left-looking-like-goth-rock-band-after-amateur-artist-bungles-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus And Virgin Mary Statues Left Looking Like Goth Rock Band After Amateur Artist Bungles Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Daily Mail (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/06\/newspress-collage-ef74t9d6h-1781550585006.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;1781536275\" alt=\"An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Religious statues covered up after botched restoration slammed by locals, Image 2 shows Religious statues covered up after botched restoration slammed by locals\" width=\"465\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The disastrous restoration left the icons of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and other figures with aggressively arched eyebrows, thick eyelashes and bright red lips.<\/p>\n<p>Locals have slammed the work, and called the horrific touch-ups disrespectful and amateurish.\u00a0Depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ, the statues at the Calvary monument on the Pra\u00e7a do Cruzeiro public square in Carmo do Cajuru, Brazil, had decayed due to time and weather exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mail (caution: tabloid): The disastrous restoration left the icons of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and other figures with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83691,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83689\/revisions\/83691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}