{"id":277964,"date":"2026-06-25T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:35:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-field-of-flags-honors-american-history-in-new-canaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277964\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Field Of Flags Honors American History In New Canaan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A sweeping Field of Flags in New Canaan is paying tribute to the nation, the freedoms Americans enjoy and the men and women who have defended them.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The display is part of the New Canaan Exchange Club\u2019s long-standing Americanism programs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Organizers say the event is designed to inspire unity across generations and remind the community that freedom is never free.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A lesser-known fact: the first American flag to fly over the nation was not made by Betsy Ross. The flag made by Ross was the third flag to fly over the nation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The display includes all 26 flags that have flown over the country and will be on display for one month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sweeping Field of Flags in New Canaan is paying tribute to the nation, the freedoms Americans enjoy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-277964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}