{"id":50463,"date":"2015-06-24T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T15:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/once_politically_sacrosanct_confederate_flag_moves_toward_an_end\/"},"modified":"2015-06-24T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T15:31:56","slug":"once_politically_sacrosanct_confederate_flag_moves_toward_an_end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50463","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) Once politically sacrosanct, Confederate flag moves toward an end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of bitter debate over whether the Confederate battle flag is a proud symbol of regional heritage or a shameful emblem of this nation\u2019s most grievous sins, the argument may finally be moving toward an end.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina is leading the way for other states, as it considers removing the flag from its capitol grounds in the wake of a horrific racial hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>The historical poignancy is heavy and resonant, given that the killings last week of nine African Americans took place in a church basement just a few miles from where the first shots of the Civil War were exchanged in 1861. Photos that have since surfaced of the accused killer, Dylann Roof, show him posing with the Confederate flag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/once-politically-sacrosanct-confederate-flag-moves-toward-an-end\/2015\/06\/23\/5009fb66-19b7-11e5-bd7f-4611a60dd8e5_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of bitter debate over whether the Confederate battle flag is a proud symbol of regional heritage or a shameful emblem of this nation\u2019s most grievous sins, the argument may finally be moving toward an end. South Carolina is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50463\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,175,168,133,151,120,108,619,34,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}