{"id":86511,"date":"2023-11-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86511"},"modified":"2023-11-22T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T15:07:59","slug":"false-flags-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86511","title":{"rendered":"False Flags II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These are the finalists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, they all like the came from IKEA, and appear to have been designed to work as button icons on Android phones, but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OK, Minnesota here are your six state flag finalists. They can tweak any of these designs, but one will eventually be picked as the basis for the final flag. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZEnTdiWhOE\">pic.twitter.com\/ZEnTdiWhOE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Briana Bierschbach (@bbierschbach) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbierschbach\/status\/1727139638043967951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;the one on top, and the bottom right, offend me the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s be honest &#8211; if on July 2 1863 the First Minnesota Regiment had gone into action behind <em>any <\/em>of these flags, Lee would have ended up sacking DC, NYC and Boston within a few weeks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the crop improved a bit from the semi-finalists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Which Minnesota Flag Finalist do you like? My favorite is the bottom right <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2fRueBY5nh\">pic.twitter.com\/2fRueBY5nh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Grant Hauschild (@grant_hauschild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grant_hauschild\/status\/1727107417996247264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure if the committee noticed how redolent a flag with a five-pointed star would be of a Soviet, Nork or Red Chinese flag, or were anticipating the avalanche of jokes and not-so-jokes if they picked a flag that looked like, uh&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a0\/Flag_of_Somalia.svg\/1280px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;the flag of Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which seemed to have inspired a prett, er, impressive number of the original 2,600 submissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the finalists: To me, they all like the came from IKEA, and appear to have been designed to work as button icons on Android phones, but&#8230; &#8230;the one on top, and the bottom right, offend me the least. But let&#8217;s be honest &#8211; if on July 2 1863 the First Minnesota Regiment had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86523,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86511\/revisions\/86523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}