{"id":50550,"date":"2015-06-29T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_fort_sumter_furls_its_confederate_flags_probably_forever\/"},"modified":"2015-06-29T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T16:00:14","slug":"local_paper_fort_sumter_furls_its_confederate_flags_probably_forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50550","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Fort Sumter furls its Confederate flags, probably forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Stone, superintendent of the Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie National Monument, said Fort Sumter\u2019s four flags were lowered the day after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tragedy has made all of us re-evaluate our role in the community and in the nation,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the National Park Service, which runs the fort, issued a directive to remove Confederate flag items such as banners, belt buckles and other souvenirs from its gift shops, though books, DVDs and other materials showing the flag in a historical context may remain for sale.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, the Park Service also instructed its parks and related sites to not fly flags other than the U.S. flag and respective state flags outside their historic context.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150628\/PC16\/150629493\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Stone, superintendent of the Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie National Monument, said Fort Sumter\u2019s four flags were lowered the day after the shooting. \u201cThe tragedy has made all of us re-evaluate our role in the community and in the nation,\u201d\u009d he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50550\">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":[39,54,133,120,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50550","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=50550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}