{"id":2797,"date":"2018-02-16T16:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2018-02-16T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:50:32","slug":"united-states-of-america-national-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/american-flags\/united-states-of-america-national-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"United States of America National Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Flag is Red, White and Blue, or Old Glory Red, white and Old Glory Blue.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2798\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/american-flags\/united-states-of-america-national-flag\/attachment\/fullsizerender-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpg?fit=640%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,398\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1518688717&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Full Size American Flag\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpg?fit=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpg?fit=625%2C389&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2798\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FullSizeRender-300x187.jpg?resize=300%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpg?resize=624%2C388&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0The blue canton symbolizes the union and the present day 50 stars stand for the 50 states. The 13 stripes, 7 red and 6 white represent the original 13 colonies\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/New_Hampshire_State_Flag.htm\">New Hampshire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Massachusetts_State_Flag.htm\">Massachusetts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Rhode_Island_State_Flag.htm\">Rhode Island<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Connecticut_State_Flag.htm\">Connecticut<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Delaware_State_Flag.htm\">Delaware<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Maryland_State_Flag.htm\">Maryland<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Virginia_State_Flag.htm\">Virginia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/North_Carolina_State_Flag.htm\">North Carolina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/South_Carolina_State_Flag.htm\">South Carolina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Georgia_State_Flag.htm\">Georgia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/New_York_State_Flag.htm\">New York<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/New_Jersey_State_Flag.htm\">New Jersey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Pennsylvania_State_Flag.htm\">Pennsylvania<\/a>)\u00a0which formed the independent nation from England known as the United States of America. The color blue symbolizes loyalty, devotion, friendship, justice and truth; the color red stands for courage, zeal and fervency; and the color white represents purity and <\/span>rectitude<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0of conduct.\u00a0 The original government proportions <\/span>of<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/american_flags.htm\">national flag<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/state_flags.htm\">state flags<\/a> are followed only by the government and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/military_flags.htm\">armed forces<\/a> while the general public use the proportions of 2:3 3:5 and 5:8<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Flag is Red, White and Blue, or Old Glory Red, white and Old Glory Blue.\u00a0The blue canton symbolizes the union and the present day 50 stars stand for the 50 states. The 13 stripes, 7 red and 6 white represent the original 13 colonies\u00a0(New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North [&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":"United States of America National Flag meaning.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[469,1155,4,1154,1153,1152,5,36,1026,146,147,1156,1157],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wIlQ-J7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797"}],"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=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}