{"id":110668,"date":"2025-06-14T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110668"},"modified":"2025-06-14T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T14:07:06","slug":"110668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110668","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I almost forgot. Today is also &#8216;Flag Day&#8217; which was instituted in 1916, When President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation that designated June 14 as &#8216;Flag Day&#8217;.<br \/>\nIn 1777 the same Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Different people had their own interpretations of that specification and even the story of George Washington employing Betsy Ross to sew a flag doesn&#8217;t have much to back it up.\u00a0 The nation didn&#8217;t have a &#8216;standard&#8217; flag until the new U.S. Congress passed the Flag Act of 1794, when 2 stars a 2 stripes were added due the entry of Vermont and Kentucky into the Union.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1a\/Betsy_Ross_flag.svg\/250px-Betsy_Ross_flag.svg.png\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Francis Hopkinson&#8217;s flag for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f6\/Hopkinson_Flag_of_the_United_States.svg\/250px-Hopkinson_Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hopkinson&#8217;s flag for the U.S. Navy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f9\/Hopkinson_Flag_of_the_United_States_Navy.svg\/250px-Hopkinson_Flag_of_the_United_States_Navy.svg.png\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281795%E2%80%931818%29.svg\/250px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281795%E2%80%931818%29.svg.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Star Spangled Banner&#8217; design which flew over Ft McHenry during the was of 1812 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write our National Anthem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I almost forgot. Today is also &#8216;Flag Day&#8217; which was instituted in 1916, When President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation that designated June 14 as &#8216;Flag Day&#8217;. In 1777 the same Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution; &#8220;That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110669,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110668\/revisions\/110669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}