{"id":2724,"date":"2018-01-12T01:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2018-01-12T01:37:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:37:06","slug":"alaska-state-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/state-flags-2\/alaska-state-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska State Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2724-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"389\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Alaska-Final-Broken.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Alaska-Final-Broken.mp4\">http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Alaska-Final-Broken.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hi Folks Patrick Page here with Flag-Works over America How are you doing today. \u00a0I\u2019m here today to talk about the Alaska state flag \u00a0\u00a0More than 30 years before Alaska \u00a0became a state, they held a design contest for a flag. \u00a0A seventh grade Aleut student, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/alaskahistoricalsociety.org\/discover-alaska\/kids-page\/benny-benson-an-alaska-kid-who-made-history\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Bell Benson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0known as Benny won that contest. the design had a blue background to represent the sky and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flowermeaning.com\/forget-me-not-flower-meaning\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forget-me-not flower<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On that background were placed eight gold stars to represent the Big Dipper and the North Star.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Big Dipper forms part of the constellation Ursa Major or Great Bear; symbolizing strength. \u00a0The North Star is the perfect representation for the future state of Alaska, it being the most northerly state in the Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This simple design was adopted by the Alaska Territorial Legislature in \u00a0May, 1927 \u00a0So Benny for winning the contest received a gold watch with the flag engraved on it and \u00a0had a Thousand dollars applied to his schooling to become an diesel mechanic. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Benny was also scheduled to present the flag to President Calvin Coolidge, but never made it. \u00a0So in 1959, When Alaska become apart of the United States, \u00a0Benny\u2019s design became the official <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Alaska-State-Flag.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alaska State flag<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0Please visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flagworks.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">flag-works.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for your Alaska State flag and all your other flag needs<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hi Folks Patrick Page here with Flag-Works over America How are you doing today. \u00a0I\u2019m here today to talk about the Alaska state flag \u00a0\u00a0More than 30 years before Alaska \u00a0became a state, they held a design contest for a flag. \u00a0A seventh grade Aleut student, John Bell Benson \u00a0known as [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[1108,1112,19,1109,1110,1111,17],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wIlQ-HW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724"}],"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=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}