{"id":127860,"date":"2015-09-01T10:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/the-new-zealand-flag-shortlist-has-been-announced.html"},"modified":"2015-09-13T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T18:14:45","slug":"the-new-zealand-flag-shortlist-has-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/the-new-zealand-flag-shortlist-has-been-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Zealand flag shortlist has been announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t know that these are my favorite designs from the 40 pre-finalists, but they aren&#39;t my least favorite. I find it interesting that it&#39;s all fern-based stuff, and that kiwi birds didn&#39;t even make the final 40.<\/p>\n<p>I do like the shout-out to the Southern Cross constellation on the current flag on the two of these. That said, I do like the rather unique starkness of the black and white ones, and would probably (were I eligible to vote) go for the <i>koru<\/i> in the upper right-hand corner, as both a reference to the fern frond it is, as well as (in the inverse) a reference to the sea which surrounds the NZ islands.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ll see what the citizenry chooses, and then whether they actually choose to replace their current flag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/sep\/01\/new-zealands-new-flag-final-four-designs-announced'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/qIUX2fg1r0sJQun6Xv_OD1HwU9iUwFfXpHB7NkhhPGixuiBFe4jf8nXmd_TijFYKVTWvyqAtE4hkyWhawoWXbtE893dHUpbFwf44usmgPaBHte2JCEM0YhI7S9l1162OChmYtX74ZKBUoBW6cpyoIqVTSAtzxnDh2gY7NPbr2pVoEsuWGp7xVEJaBuppw8B2NxkBxfEsRnjH4YmlGuS5xY62od7sEVOmi6OjPSJ86lNLvvd5BB_N0_lK=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/sep\/01\/new-zealands-new-flag-final-four-designs-announced'>New Zealand&#8217;s new flag: final four designs announced<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt&rsquo;s a choice between three ferns and a black-and-white koru for New Zealand&rsquo;s new flag as the government panel publishes its final shortlist\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/8Xuw4dg7cPm'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t know that these are my favorite designs from the 40 pre-finalists, but they aren&#39;t my least favorite. I find it interesting that it&#39;s all fern-based stuff, and that kiwi birds didn&#39;t even make the final 40. I do like the shout-out to the Southern Cross constellation on the current flag on the two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/the-new-zealand-flag-shortlist-has-been-announced.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The New Zealand flag shortlist has been announced&#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":[106,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-commercial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127902,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/yes-the-way-to-stop-kids-from-reading-something-is-to-ban-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":127860,"position":0},"title":"Yes, the way to stop kids from reading something is to ban it!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Sep-15 12:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"New Zealand's government, responding to lobbying from a conservative group, has banned \"supply or sale\" of the young adult novel Into the River. 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