{"id":49,"date":"2004-04-28T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T20:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/archives\/2004\/04\/28\/iraqi-flag\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T16:12:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T20:12:15","slug":"iraqi-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2004\/04\/28\/iraqi-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"iraqi flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~ to the iraqis who are whining about the top-down approach for determining your nation&#8217;s flag and wondering if your &#8216;council&#8217; has nothing better to do: there is a democracy in the state of georgia, and &#8211; when they are through trying to prevent two men from getting married &#8211; the gov&#8217;t there finds time to churn out a new flag almost every two years. so, if wasteful activities of a deafened assembly are hallmarks of democracy, then you are closer than we all might think. <\/p>\n<p>to the iraqis who are whining about the design: the two stripes for your rivers are much more clever than the stripes on the recently served georgian flag, which don&#8217;t mean anything but that the designer had seen them on another flag. on the other hand, we don&#8217;t think it was too clever to base the rest of the iraqi flag on religion, separatists, and the israeli model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ to the iraqis who are whining about the top-down approach for determining your nation&#8217;s flag and wondering if your &#8216;council&#8217; has nothing better to do: there is a democracy in the state of georgia, and &#8211; when they are through trying to prevent two men from getting married &#8211; the gov&#8217;t there finds time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-iraq"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}