{"id":362,"date":"2012-09-10T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2012-09-10T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:39:21","slug":"the-gadsden-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/historical-flags\/the-gadsden-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gadsden Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t tread on Me is the inscription on the <a title=\"The Gadsden flag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Gadsden_flag.htm\">Gadsden flags<\/a>.\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/History\/Gadsde1.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"Gadsden Flag\" \/>The flag of the first commander of the <a title=\"US Navy Flags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Navy_flags.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U. S. Navy<\/a>, Esek Hopkins. It takes the popular name from Colonel Christopher Gadsden, who gave\u00a0a\u00a0replica of the original to the S.C. Provincial Congress. \u00a0Don&#8217;t tread on me has become\u00a0synonymous\u00a0with the current Tea Party movement. \u00a0The original flag stood for not letting England tread on colonial patriots. \u00a0 The Tea Party, patriots,\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0want the American government treading on them. \u00a0This makes this <a title=\"Flags by Flag-Works over America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\" target=\"_blank\">flag<\/a> carry an appropriate message that is still relevant today.<\/p>\n<p>Our authentic\u00a0historical\u00a0reproductions of flags from American history are popular with collectors or as part of patriotic displays.\u00a0\u00a0The <a title=\"US Historical flags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/us_historical_flags.htm\" target=\"_blank\">historical flags<\/a>\u00a0are manufactured with the same high quality outdoor construction as our state and <a title=\"Other country flags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/international_flags.htm\" target=\"_blank\">international flags<\/a>. Buy one today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t tread on Me is the inscription on the Gadsden flags.\u00a0The flag of the first commander of the U. S. Navy, Esek Hopkins. It takes the popular name from Colonel Christopher Gadsden, who gave\u00a0a\u00a0replica of the original to the S.C. Provincial Congress. \u00a0Don&#8217;t tread on me has become\u00a0synonymous\u00a0with the current Tea Party movement. \u00a0The original [&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":[45],"tags":[205,203,200,201,47,202,204],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wIlQ-5Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}