{"id":579,"date":"2008-11-24T23:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T23:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:27:57","slug":"flags-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/579","title":{"rendered":"Flags up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/unionflag.jpg\" alt=\"Union Flag\" class=\"alignright\" \/>I don&#8217;t know why but flag poles flying Union Jacks* seem to have become popular in BS6. Two have appeared in recent months, one in Cotham Grove and one in Redland Road opposite Fernbank. I haven&#8217;t observed them enough to see if they are following proper flag etiquette. Up at the company we had a new man unexpectedly made responsible for the three new flag poles outside the executive block and he had no training. So I gave him a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flagpolecompany.co.uk\/flag%20etiquette.htm\">some basic rules<\/a> I found. These things need to be done properly else you will offend someone! Particularly with visitors from the far and middle east.<\/p>\n<p>* Apparently it is now ok to call it a Jack. Union Flag is seen as pedantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why but flag poles flying Union Jacks* seem to have become popular in BS6. Two have appeared in recent months, one in Cotham Grove and one in Redland Road opposite Fernbank. I haven&#8217;t observed them enough to see if they are following proper flag etiquette. Up at the company we had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}