{"id":360117,"date":"2026-07-03T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360117\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:51:09","slug":"houston-kids-paint-giant-flag-mural-for-americas-250th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360117\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston kids paint giant flag mural for America\u2019s 250th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the nation\u2019s 250th birthday celebration, members of the Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Houston transformed their headquarters into a canvas for patriotism and community.<\/p>\n<p>Working alongside Houston artist\u00a0Kimmie Gillespie, the students created \u201cWe, The Kids,\u201d a 300-foot-by-50-foot painted American flag mural that celebrates the ideals of the Declaration of Independence while encouraging young people to reflect on citizenship, service and civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>The mural, painted with eco-friendly, non-toxic tempera paint, also gave each participant the opportunity to sign a commemorative scroll recognizing their role in the collaborative artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Chronicle staff photographer Brett Coomer documented the creativity, teamwork and pride on display as the young artists helped bring the massive installation to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the nation\u2019s 250th birthday celebration, members of the Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Houston transformed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-360117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}