{"id":1230,"date":"2016-07-02T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2016-07-02T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T13:00:42","slug":"flags-of-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"Flags of the Revolution Day II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lng.853.mytemp.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1231 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/lng.853.mytemp.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3013\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When I bought Spruce Head House,\u00a0I wanted to continue the flag flying tradition of my father. His father had a flag pole, and I suppose that&#8217;s why he had one installed on his property. As I was looking for secondary flags to fly with Ol&#8217; Glory, I happened upon the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sons_of_Liberty\">Sons of Liberty<\/a> flag. Most of what they stood for seemed to fit with the political leanings of me and wife, and so I bought &#8220;her&#8221; a Sons of Liberty flag as a gift.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, one might consider The Sons a group of toughs; a gang. While they were a gang\u00a0<em>for liberty<\/em>, and so are generally accepted as patriots, their methods were pretty strong arm. The Boston Tea Party was a Sons stunt. Tarring and feathering was done, as well as general beating of someone Brit loyalist who dared cross paths with them. So while I might not agree with their tactics, I agree with their ideals. For those reasons, the Rebellious Stripes fly over downtown Spruce Head America today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I bought Spruce Head House,\u00a0I wanted to continue the flag flying tradition of my father. His father had a flag pole, and I suppose that&#8217;s why he had one installed on his property. As I was looking for secondary flags to fly with Ol&#8217; Glory, I happened upon the Sons of Liberty flag. Most &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1230\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-1230","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}