{"id":498,"date":"2017-07-02T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=498"},"modified":"2017-07-02T18:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T18:20:11","slug":"fly-the-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2017\/07\/fly-the-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly the flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unusual birthday card, for me. Unlike in some countries, we don&#8217;t\u00a0 really feature our flag creatively. It&#8217;s only since the 2012 Olympics that we&#8217;ve seen items decorated with the Union flag or its colours, and since the Rio Olympics that&#8217;s died down a lot. I hope this isn&#8217;t disrespectful &#8211; it is supposed to represent pride in a creative way!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-499\" src=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flagbirthday.png\" alt=\"flag birthday\" width=\"442\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flagbirthday.png 600w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flagbirthday-144x150.png 144w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flagbirthday-289x300.png 289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is all watercolouring and a Uniko sentiment. It doesn&#8217;t look as crooked in real life, honestly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/fusioncardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/06\/fusion-4th-of-july-jars.html\">Fusion inspiration picture<\/a> which not only has the colours but the actual flag decorating the jars: though I picked my own flag to play with and we don&#8217;t celebrate the 4th July.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m entering this there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seizethebirthday.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/06\/anything-goes.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wtCSQra-QCc\/WMOzhn6QUCI\/AAAAAAAAK88\/ScV9scHho5cnsGaGHI-fqT_3NhYeFMarwCLcB\/s1600\/Fusion%2BTemplate-001.png\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PouyBTwvWqE\/WRNhFl9df4I\/AAAAAAAAcsA\/NfvnpYp6OzUkVFmhb7b4rXh_chRLgLNuQCLcB\/s320\/LIM%2B%2523335.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"110\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-95ytMRZTiA4\/UdyCSwzwRGI\/AAAAAAAATR0\/fSF7TsMQzZg\/s320\/Linky+badge.png\" width=\"201\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also in the <a href=\"http:\/\/simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/07\/challenge-335-colours-of-your-countrys.html\">Less is More challenge #335 to use the colours of one&#8217;s flag<\/a>. I have to credit design team member Esther&#8217;s card for inspiring my layout.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/seizethebirthday.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/06\/anything-goes.html\">Seize the Birthday&#8217;s Anything Goes Challenge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A haiku for this card:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy where I live<br \/>\nBeautiful spaces, good people<br \/>\n&#8230;a community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unusual birthday card, for me. Unlike in some countries, we don&#8217;t\u00a0 really feature our flag creatively. It&#8217;s only since the 2012 Olympics that we&#8217;ve seen items decorated with the Union flag or its colours, and since the Rio Olympics that&#8217;s died down a lot. I hope this isn&#8217;t disrespectful &#8211; it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}