{"id":166,"date":"2012-03-20T20:21:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-03-20T20:21:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T20:21:30","slug":"the-spinning-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/flagpoles\/the-spinning-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spinning Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many updates in the flag industry, but one stands out.<\/p>\n<p>For as long as flags have been flying on house mounted flagpoles, they have gotten wrapped around the pole. \u00a0This is called being &#8220;furled.&#8221; \u00a0Many items try to negate this unsightely display of the American flag: the <a title=\"American flags available with a pole sleeve.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/american_flags.htm\">pole sleeve flag<\/a>, the unwrapper tube and the neverfurl. They all accomplished the job of keeping the flag unfurled, but none has succeded as easily as the spinning pole has. It&#8217;s simple. \u00a0Attach the flag and let it fly free. \u00a0The <a title=\"House Display poles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/house.htm\">spinning pole<\/a> has made the un-wrapper tube and the never-furl obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it so simple? \u00a0The pole is actually two pieces of\u00a0aluminum\u00a0tube that screw together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-piece-spinning-pole.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"169\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/flagpoles\/the-spinning-pole\/attachment\/2-piece-spinning-pole\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-piece-spinning-pole.jpg?fit=320%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,240\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2 piece spinning pole\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Two piece spinning pole.  The bearings are housed in the sleeve to the left&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-piece-spinning-pole.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-piece-spinning-pole.jpg?fit=320%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-169\" title=\"2 piece spinning pole\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-piece-spinning-pole-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-piece-spinning-pole.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-piece-spinning-pole.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>One piece has ball bearings in it allowing the top tube to spin. \u00a0This spinning keeps the flag from wrapping. \u00a0Simple. The\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Spinning-pole-video.mp4\">Spinning pole video<\/a>\u00a0shows how a flag just spins free. (I don&#8217;t know how to rotate the video)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many updates in the flag industry, but one stands out. For as long as flags have been flying on house mounted flagpoles, they have gotten wrapped around the pole. \u00a0This is called being &#8220;furled.&#8221; \u00a0Many items try to negate this unsightely display of the American flag: the pole sleeve flag, the unwrapper [&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":[78],"tags":[79,100,99,103,101,102],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wIlQ-2G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}