{"id":33487,"date":"2013-05-01T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/shes-a-grand-ol-flag.html"},"modified":"2013-05-02T06:55:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:55:52","slug":"shes-a-grand-ol-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/shes-a-grand-ol-flag.html","title":{"rendered":"She's a grand ol' flag!"},"content":{"rendered":"
I cannot imagine the chaos that would erupt in the American government and society if, for some reason, we decided to redesign our flag. \u00a0The confluence of aesthetic, cultural, and ideological opinions would be nigh-apocalyptic. \u00a0And while I think the eventual Canadian maple leaf flag turned out surprisingly successfully, I shudder to think of what design the US would adopt today, by what process, and what conspiracy theories the new design and the change itself would spawn.<\/div>\n

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11 Rejected Canadian Flag Designs<\/a>
\n When Canada adopted its flag in the mid-1960s, 2,136 of the submitted designs contained a maple leaf. Another 389 featured beavers.\n <\/p>\n

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I cannot imagine the chaos that would erupt in the American government and society if, for some reason, we decided to redesign our flag. \u00a0The confluence of aesthetic, cultural, and ideological opinions would be nigh-apocalyptic. \u00a0And while I think the eventual Canadian maple leaf flag turned out surprisingly successfully, I shudder to think of what … Continue reading “She's a grand ol' flag!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[106,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128468,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/29\/youre-a-grand-old-flag-or-are-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":33487,"position":0},"title":"You're a Grand Old Flag (or are you?)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-Oct-15 7:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"In this day and age, sitting still for an 18 minute TED talk is not always easy, but Roman Mars' discussion of flags and design principles (extensible into design principles of most everything) is breezy and entertaining and worth a listen (and watch).It also got me to look up my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1390,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/14\/vexillogy.html","url_meta":{"origin":33487,"position":1},"title":"Vexillogy","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Jan-02 9:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"The North American Vexillological Association (vexillogy is the study of flags) has the results of its 2001 poll of US and Canadian state\/provicial flags. 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