{"id":3577,"date":"2015-02-16T18:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T01:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2015-02-16T22:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T05:31:27","slug":"happy-50th-birthday-canadian-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/happy-50th-birthday-canadian-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 50th Birthday Canadian Flag!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This morning all the staff &amp; student of Nelson met at\u00a0our flagpole to recognize National Flag Day as we sang Oh Canada &amp; division 8&#8217;s very own Emily raised Nelson&#8217;s flag with Yi &amp; Michael!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click on the mountie below to see the video!<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-sWnRTKbQsY\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3593\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/files\/2015\/02\/mounted_police_flag.gif\" alt=\"mounted_police_flag\" width=\"87\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a>Thanks to all the students who wore red, &#8216;Canada&#8217; clothes or their club&#8217;s uniform. What a wonderful, sunny day to celebrate being Canadian!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click on the smiley below for\u00a0pictures of our celebration!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/109787477694093882328\/albums\/6116673558631948513?banner=pwa\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3579\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/files\/2015\/02\/canadian-flag.gif\" alt=\"canadian-flag\" width=\"98\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Our red &amp; white maple leaf flag was first raised over Parliament Hill 50 years ago on February 15, 1965. This is a significant &amp; special milestone as Canadians prepare for the 150<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> anniversary of Confederation in 2017.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">The 50<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> anniversary of our National Flag in 2015 gives Canadians an opportunity\u00a0to reflect on what our flag represents\u00a0~ a strong, proud and free country.<a title=\"Flag Quiz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/multimedia\/how-well-do-you-know-canada-s-flag-take-the-quiz-1.2954493\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3578\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/files\/2015\/02\/Canada-Flag.jpg\" alt=\"Canada-Flag\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click on the Canada Flag above to take a quiz on how well you know<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #00ccff; line-height: 1.7;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Canada&#8217;s flag! Good Luck Nelsonites!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #00ccff; line-height: 1.7;\">Tell us how you did below in the Comments! Did our discussion with Mrs. Roberts in Library last week help you answer any of the questions?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning all the staff &amp; student of Nelson met at\u00a0our flagpole to recognize National Flag Day as we sang Oh Canada &amp; division 8&#8217;s very own Emily raised Nelson&#8217;s flag with Yi &amp; Michael! Click on the mountie below &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/happy-50th-birthday-canadian-flag\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3597,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}