{"id":4925,"date":"2020-08-30T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2020-08-30T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T18:12:11","slug":"american-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/2020\/08\/american-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"American Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since being out in Montauk for 5 months, I\u2019ve noticed countless American flags. It\u2019s a town with a conservative streak, but the flag explosion seems new.  I\u2019ve seen them on houses, on flagpoles in town, outside of restaurants\u2014everywhere. Just to emphasize how many flags there are in Montauk, these photos are just the flags I saw on a short 15-minute walk in my neighborhood. There must be dozens more all around Montauk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s wrong to have an American flag, because America can represent so many different things (a philosophy of freedom, individualism, democracy) but I do think they run the risk of being insensitive to the time we\u2019re living in (Black Lives Matter movement, racial injustices by police, the COVID-19 pandemic and the president\u2019s inability to address it, etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also think that flags show a certain pride and desire to emphasize one\u2019s support for something\u2014they\u2019re showy and purposeful\u2014so when, at a time like this in our country, someone puts up an American flag, it sends a very clear message: I am an American and I don\u2019t choose to see how this country has failed certain groups of people and how we\u2019ve done horrible things, because I will always be loyal and America is great and amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since being out in Montauk for 5 months, I\u2019ve noticed countless American flags. It\u2019s a town with a conservative streak, but the flag explosion seems new.  I\u2019ve seen them on houses, on flagpoles in town, outside of restaurants\u2014everywhere. Just to emphasize how many flags there are in Montauk, these photos are just the flags I saw on a short 15-minute walk in my neighborhood. There must be dozens more all around Montauk. Now, I don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,318],"tags":[],"coauthors":[388],"class_list":["post-4925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}