{"id":124402,"date":"2026-01-08T00:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124402\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:18:16","slug":"pillen-orders-flags-to-half-staff-honoring-california-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124402\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillen orders flags to half-staff honoring California congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) &#8211; Gov. Jim Pillen has directed that all U.S. and state flags be flown at half-staff in accordance with a directive from President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The order honors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1011now.com\/2026\/01\/06\/rep-doug-lamalfa-california-dies-reducing-gops-narrow-control-house-218-213\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.1011now.com\/2026\/01\/06\/rep-doug-lamalfa-california-dies-reducing-gops-narrow-control-house-218-213\/\">California Congressman Doug LaMalfa<\/a>, who died Monday at the age of 65. President Trump referred to LaMalfa as a \u201ctrue American patriot and a fantastic representative for Northern California\u201d in a post published on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Flags should fly at half-staff until sunset Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1011now.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our 10\/11 NOW daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOLN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) &#8211; Gov. Jim Pillen has directed that all U.S. and state flags be flown at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1752,339,536,15617,18111,943,64904,64905,17677,64906],"class_list":["post-124402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-congress","tag-death","tag-donald-trump","tag-doug-lamalfa","tag-flags","tag-governor","tag-half-staff","tag-jim-pillen","tag-nebraska","tag-why-are"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}