{"id":1079,"date":"2004-06-29T17:21:42","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2004-06-29T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T00:21:42","slug":"the-new-iraqi-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/06\/29\/the-new-iraqi-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Iraqi Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002429\"><\/a>Another weird item that has been tossed into the memory hole&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is the flag that was &#8220;replaced&#8221; last April:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/flagspot.net\/images\/i\/iq.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>The flag that replaced it&#8230; tear out the colors that spell out Arabic pride, and put it in the model of Israel&#8217;s flag&#8230; you will recall that it didn&#8217;t go over too well:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/04\/27\/iraq.flag.ap\/story.iraq.flag.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And so, on June 28, the US handed over psuedo-sovreignty to Iraq&#8217;s newly created interim government.  And what flag stood there?<\/p>\n<p>The old one.<\/p>\n<p>We could have, you know, created a flag in the model of the old British Empire mode&#8230; a small symbol of the American flag in the corner, with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another weird item that has been tossed into the memory hole&#8230; This is the flag that was &#8220;replaced&#8221; last April: The flag that replaced it&#8230; tear out the colors that spell out Arabic pride, and put it in the model of Israel&#8217;s flag&#8230; you will recall that it didn&#8217;t go over too well: And so, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}