{"id":6882,"date":"2007-03-09T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/09\/and-down-came-the-flag\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:20:07","slug":"and-down-came-the-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2007\/03\/09\/and-down-came-the-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"And down came the flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoyed\u00a0this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/story\/2007\/03\/06\/bc-flag.html\">story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Vandals have stolen the huge Olympic flag\u00a0that has been flying at Vancouver City Hall the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Police say someone broke the lock on the flag pole early Tuesday, cut the rope, brought the flag down to the ground and then ripped it off the cable.<\/p>\n<p>Just a small strip of cloth, about 10 centimetres by a metre, was left behind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0It must be said that it was quite athletic feat to get the thing down, not entirely sure why they are calling them &#8220;vandals&#8221; ..they&#8217;re obviously activists. The average vandal doesn&#8217;t shimmy up a pole to make a point, usually a can of spray paint or\u00a0a brick suffices. The flag dipped just as\u00a0some\u00a0important international crowd was arriving to celebrate it I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoyed\u00a0this story: \u00a0Vandals have stolen the huge Olympic flag\u00a0that has been flying at Vancouver City Hall the past year. Police say someone broke the lock on the flag pole early Tuesday, cut the rope, brought the flag down to the ground and then ripped it off the cable. Just a small strip of cloth, about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,68,78,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballroom-dancing","category-my-articles","category-protest","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}