{"id":39928,"date":"2026-06-14T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=39928"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:54:47","slug":"today-is-flag-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=39928","title":{"rendered":"Today is Flag Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/150702-US-flags-Iowa-5D3-0931-tm-w7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24860 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/150702-US-flags-Iowa-5D3-0931-tm-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress declared that the flag of the new United States, \u201cbe thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.\u201d More stars have been added as more states joined the union. Flag Day began in 1861 to support the Union during the Civil War. President Woodrow Wilson made it an official holiday in 1916.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180629-US-flags-5D3-0227-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180629-US-flags-5D3-0227-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180629-US-flags-5D3-0227-w7.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180629-US-flags-5D3-0227-w7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180629-US-flags-5D3-0227-w7-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160709a-walk-US-flags-280HS-5810-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160709a-walk-US-flags-280HS-5810-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160709a-walk-US-flags-280HS-5810-w7.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160709a-walk-US-flags-280HS-5810-w7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160709a-walk-US-flags-280HS-5810-w7-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/141003-Team-Red-White-Blue-5D3-3699-w7-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21119 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/141003-Team-Red-White-Blue-5D3-3699-w7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/140526-US-Flag-parade-5D3-9000-w7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5632 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/140526-US-Flag-parade-5D3-9000-w7.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Flag, Parade\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress declared that the flag of the new United States, \u201cbe thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.\u201d More stars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=39928\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39934,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39928\/revisions\/39934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}