{"id":150423,"date":"2020-07-01T02:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/01\/governor-signs-historic-bill-to-remove-confederate-symbol-from-mississippi-flag\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T02:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:45:48","slug":"governor-signs-historic-bill-to-remove-confederate-symbol-from-mississippi-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=150423","title":{"rendered":"Governor signs historic bill to remove Confederate symbol from Mississippi flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers have seen increasing pressure to change the flag amid a nationwide reckoning with systematic racismMississippi has officially retired the last state flag in the US with the Confederate battle emblem, a racist symbol that has served as a source of division for generations.Republican governor Tate Reeves signed a historic bill withdrawing the state\u2019s 126-year-old flag on Tuesday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jun\/30\/mississippi-flag-confederate-symbol-remove\" target=\"_blank\">Governor signs historic bill to remove Confederate symbol from Mississippi flag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers have seen increasing pressure to change the flag amid a nationwide reckoning with systematic racismMississippi has officially retired the last state flag in the US with the Confederate battle emblem, a racist symbol that has served as a source of division for generations.Republican governor Tate Reeves signed a historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}