{"id":118,"date":"2012-02-14T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2012-02-14T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:05:35","slug":"texas-state-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/state-flags-2\/texas-state-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Lone Star state is the only state that has flags in size 30&#8242; x 60&#8242; ready to go. \u00a0This goes right along with the saying everything is bigger in Texas. \u00a0 At one time,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;\"><a title=\"Spain Flag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Spain_Spanish_flag.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a>, <a title=\"France flag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/France_French_flag.htm\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a>, <a title=\"Mexico Flag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Mexico_Mexican_flag.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>, the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy and the United States have all flown flags over Texas. They encompass the six flags of Texas. \u00a0The <a title=\"Texas State flag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Texas_State_Flag.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Texas flag<\/a>\u00a0itself, consists of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Texas Flag\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/states\/Texas.gif?resize=324%2C216\" alt=\"Texas flag\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lone Star<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;\">a large white star that was first used on flags carried by Texas during the Texas Revolution against Mexico in the 1830s. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;\">It is thought that the star comes from the Bonnie Blue Flag used in 1810 by the Settlers in West Florida.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;\">An official flag with this star was chosen in 1839, although during the Civil War, the <a title=\"confederate battle flag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/CSA-Battle-Flag.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Confederate flag<\/a> was flown.\u00a0 The flag&#8217;s color blue stands for loyalty, white for purity and red for bravery.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong style=\"color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;\">Texas State\u00a0<\/strong><strong style=\"color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;\">Flag Adopted<\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;\">:\u00a0 1839<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The 28th state, admitted 1845<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lone Star state is the only state that has flags in size 30&#8242; x 60&#8242; ready to go. \u00a0This goes right along with the saying everything is bigger in Texas. \u00a0 At one time,\u00a0Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy and the United States have all flown flags over Texas. They encompass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[91,93,88,92,94,89,90],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wIlQ-1U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}