{"id":127492,"date":"2015-08-10T14:05:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/crowdsourcing-a-new-flag.html"},"modified":"2015-08-10T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:05:24","slug":"crowdsourcing-a-new-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/crowdsourcing-a-new-flag.html","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing a new flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand is looking to replace its national flag (which looks just like Australia&#39;s, except for red stars for the Southern Cross instead of white).  The narrowed-to-40 results are pretty cool, and some of them quite different from any other flags out there.  I&#39;ll be interested to see how it all ends up.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#39;m trying to think of how a similar US contest might go, and I see it ending in nothing but tears.)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103389452828130864950\" oid=\"103389452828130864950\">Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/politics\/2015\/08\/40-finalist-designs-for-new-zealands-next-flag\/400922'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/9EJOtBmhsBujoLyCabclmh2sSiLQZVngctCiLlZv2YGoeMX-Zhj00qoSSvYgZ6BbNmF8_Nqas4N69mB2x4HQXkrsP0dsgsq3WsmvkH7RBcSelr3zpfr0Wa_9YQZeqIyAgg2I1rY9tBIWHLy_ToyuPfomlAx1yE6qk9DnM98=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/politics\/2015\/08\/40-finalist-designs-for-new-zealands-next-flag\/400922'>One of These 40 Designs Might Be New Zealand&#8217;s Next Flag<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nKiwis face an important decision in two upcoming referendums.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/5Xb5MDxcs6G'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand is looking to replace its national flag (which looks just like Australia&#39;s, except for red stars for the Southern Cross instead of white). The narrowed-to-40 results are pretty cool, and some of them quite different from any other flags out there. I&#39;ll be interested to see how it all ends up. (I&#39;m trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/crowdsourcing-a-new-flag.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crowdsourcing a new flag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51609,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/is-the-american-flag-next.html","url_meta":{"origin":127492,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Is the American flag next?&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Jun-15 2:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Um ... no. That seems unlikely. Unlike the Confederate battle flag, the American flag is, actually, our national flag.Mind you, Americans have a fetish about the stars and stripes that could probably bear with some moderation. But there's a significant difference between the social ostracizing of the battle flag of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51686,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/07\/and-now-for-a-different-flag-furor.html","url_meta":{"origin":127492,"position":1},"title":"And, now, for a different flag furor","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Jul-15 8:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll be honest in saying that I had no idea that there was a quasi-official \"Christian flag\" (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_Flag). 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