{"id":30,"date":"2012-01-05T16:02:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T16:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2012-01-05T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T16:02:02","slug":"state-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/state-flags-2\/state-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"State Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each of the 50 united states, along with territories such as Puerto Rico and the United States<br \/>\nVirgin Islands have separate and distinct flags.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/state_flags.htm\">state flags<\/a> such as that of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Four states are officially<br \/>\norganized as commonwealths, not states: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Kentucky.)<br \/>\nhave Latin mottos emblazoned on flags, others have mottos in English, some are just colorful<br \/>\ncombinations. Every state \u2013 and commonwealth \u2013 has a flag which somehow reflects either<br \/>\nhistory of the state or is specifically representative of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The dark blue Virginia flag has the round state seal in the middle, with the Latin motto \u201cSic<br \/>\nsemper tyrannis\u201d at the bottom, which translates to \u201cThus Always to Tyrants,\u201d and the figure in<br \/>\nthe seal shows triumph over a defeated king. The flag was adopted by the Virginia legislature in<br \/>\nJanuary of 1861, three months before seceding from the Union in April of 1861 at the beginning<br \/>\nof the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>It took the state of Arizona five years to create an official flag after statehood was awarded in<br \/>\n1912. In 1917, a flag with a dark blue bottom, a large copper colored star in the middle, and 13<br \/>\nbands suggesting rays of sunshine was chosen, making the Arizona flag one of the most unique<br \/>\nand colorful of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/state_flags.htm\">state flags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even though all of the original 13 colonies which later formed the United States of America were<br \/>\nBritish colonies, Hawaii, the last state to join the Union in August of 1959 is the only U.S. state<br \/>\nwhich incorporates the British Empire Union Flag into its design.<\/p>\n<p>The flag was originally introduced in Hawaii in 1845 when the islands were under British<br \/>\ninfluence, but the various flags of Hawaii changed as control of the islands changed. When<br \/>\nstatehood was attained in 1959, the 1845 design, which was subsequently re-adopted by the<br \/>\nRepublic of Hawaii from 1894 to 1898, then used as a U.S. territorial flag from 1898 to 1959,<br \/>\nsimply transitioned to the official state flag.<\/p>\n<p>On display, state flags are always second to the national colors, but rank above flags of lesser<br \/>\npolitical subdivisions such as cities and counties. Flags of separate organizations, such as<br \/>\nuniversities, religions, or private organizations\/companies also rank below state flags when on<br \/>\ndisplay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of the 50 united states, along with territories such as Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands have separate and distinct flags. Some state flags such as that of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Four states are officially organized as commonwealths, not states: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Kentucky.) have Latin mottos emblazoned on flags, [&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":[26,27,25,17],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wIlQ-u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}