{"id":33952,"date":"2018-12-01T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33952"},"modified":"2018-12-01T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:55:08","slug":"flags-lowered-for-reason-other-than-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33952","title":{"rendered":"Flags lowered for reason other than mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The president of the United States has ordered all U.S. flags lowered to half-staff for the next 30 days to honor the life and service of the late President George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s oddly <em>refreshing<\/em> &#8212; if you don&#8217;t mind my using that term &#8212; to know the flags are being lowered for something other than a mass shooting. It seems all too often we are displaying the Stars and Stripes to honor the memories of those who get slaughtered at the hands of madmen.<\/p>\n<p>President Bush&#8217;s life deserves the high honor it will receive not just in the next few days or weeks, but for as long as human beings inhabit this Earth.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the United States has ordered all U.S. flags lowered to half-staff for the next 30 days to honor the life and service of the late President George H.W. Bush. It&#8217;s oddly refreshing &#8212; if you don&#8217;t mind my using that term &#8212; to know the flags are being lowered for something other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flags lowered for reason other than mass shooting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,1892,8175,3688],"class_list":["post-33952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-hw-bush","tag-half-staff","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33953,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33952\/revisions\/33953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}