{"id":74,"date":"2004-12-09T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=74"},"modified":"2004-12-09T15:30:52","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T21:30:52","slug":"still-waving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/12\/still-waving\/","title":{"rendered":"Still waving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the Post Office the other morning and noticed that the flag was at half-staff and I was wondering about that as I continued on to work since I hadn&#8217;t heard of anyone dying recently. Or, at least not a death that would cause the flag to be at half-staff (grunts in Iraq don&#8217;t count). When I got to work I noticed our flag was at-full staff and I checked with the security guy when I went in but he hadn&#8217;t heard anything. We both thought it was probably Pearl Harbor Day. He said he would check it out. I looked into it a bit later and found that yes, indeed, there are four times a year when the flag is flown at half-staff, as a matter of course.  Peace Officer&#8217;s Day, Korean Armistice Day, Patriot Day and Pearl Harbor Day. ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.powercom.net\/~rokats\/flagettt.html\">When and How to Display Our Flag<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I checked later in the day and they hadn&#8217;t bothered to lower the flag. I guess they had better things to do.<\/p>\n<p>And just to note,<a href=\"http:\/\/flagspot.net\/flags\/xf-half.html\"> a Mast is on a ship, a Staff is on land<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the Post Office the other morning and noticed that the flag was at half-staff and I was wondering about that as I continued on to work since I hadn&#8217;t heard of anyone dying recently. Or, at least not a death that would cause the flag to be at half-staff (grunts in Iraq &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/12\/still-waving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still waving<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-1c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}