{"id":332268,"date":"2026-07-07T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332268\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:50:11","slug":"floridas-tallest-american-flag-pole-towers-over-southwest-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332268\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s tallest American flag pole towers over Southwest Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew West, Fort Myers News-Press<\/p>\n<p>Tue, July 7, 2026 at 7:59 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>1 \/ 0<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s tallest American flag pole towers over Southwest Florida<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s tallest American flag towers over Cape Coral  on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. The flag pole is 250 feet high and sits at the base of the Cape Coral bridge.  Photographed from the Fort Myers side of the Midpoint bridge.<\/p>\n<p> (Andrew West\/The News-Press &amp; Naples Daily News \/USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida)<\/p>\n<p>New American flag pole towers over Cape Coral and Southwest Florida. As seen from Cape Coral and Fort Myers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew West, Fort Myers News-Press Tue, July 7, 2026 at 7:59 PM UTC 1 \/ 0 Florida&#8217;s tallest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,1521],"class_list":["post-332268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-southwest-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}