{"id":789,"date":"2005-01-02T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=789"},"modified":"2005-01-02T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2005-01-02T19:15:07","slug":"flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/01\/02\/flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003132\"><\/a>I am walking in the direction of a house, and I see displayed in the right-hand half on a window the Stars and Bars &#8212; the old Confederate Flag.  I groan.<\/p>\n<p>Then I notice on the left-hand side of the window the old Hammer and Stickle &#8212; the flag for the old Soviet Union.  It all starts to make sense.  It&#8217;s an ironic mix, or a defunct mix, or something.<\/p>\n<p>Self-described Communists wouldn&#8217;t wave that flag &#8212; probably choosing instead plain red or a Che Guevra banner or who knows what.  Patriots of the old Confederacy would still wave their flag, however, and demand their multi-cultural right to do so with the Yankee and Black&#8217;s fully forged respect on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>General Lee and Comrade Lenin &#8212; I salute you both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am walking in the direction of a house, and I see displayed in the right-hand half on a window the Stars and Bars &#8212; the old Confederate Flag. I groan. Then I notice on the left-hand side of the window the old Hammer and Stickle &#8212; the flag for the old Soviet Union. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}