{"id":28879,"date":"2023-08-24T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28879"},"modified":"2023-08-24T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:19:03","slug":"do-you-have-a-national-flag-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28879","title":{"rendered":"Do you have a National Flag Day and, if not, would you want one?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My last holiday was to the three countries of the Caucasus: Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. I was struck by the observation that each of these three countries has a national flag day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wondering how common or how rare this practice is, I checked it out on Wikipedia and learned that over 50 countries &#8211; around one quarter of all nations &#8211; have a national flag day. Check out the full list <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_Day?wprov=sfti1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_Day?wprov=sfti1\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably absent from this list is my own country of the United Kingdom. Here public displays of patriotism &#8211; such as honouring the flag or singing the national anthem or displaying pictures of the national leader &#8211; are rare and the whole concept of national pride is somewhat understated. I confess that I rather like this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last holiday was to the three countries of the Caucasus: Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. I was struck by the observation that each of these three countries has a national flag day. Wondering how common or how rare this practice is, I checked it out on Wikipedia and learned that over 50 countries &#8211; around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28882,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879\/revisions\/28882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}