{"id":501,"date":"2014-06-18T18:08:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countyflagsday.abcounties.com\/?page_id=501"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:52:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:52:29","slug":"whatcanido","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/whatcanido\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can I Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5 Simple Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim of <em>Historic County Flags Day <\/em>is to get as many county flags flying across Great Britain as possible on one day, Wednesday 23rd July 2014. You can literally <em>Colour Your County! <\/em>by following 5 simple steps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-249 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/countyflagsday.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/05\/County-Flags-Map-Photos-Small-155x300.png\" alt=\"County Flags Map Photos Small\" width=\"155\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/files\/2014\/05\/County-Flags-Map-Photos-Small-155x300.png 155w, https:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/files\/2014\/05\/County-Flags-Map-Photos-Small.png 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Find out which Historic County you live in, using and searching\u00a0this simple <a href=\"http:\/\/wikishire.co.uk\/map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>See if your Historic County has a Flag using the Flag Institute&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flaginstitute.org\/wp\/flag-registry\/?flagtype=County+Flag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Flag Registry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Purchase your County&#8217;s flag online. These cost around \u00a35 each!<\/li>\n<li>Take a photo of your flag proudly on display or flying.<\/li>\n<li>Use the hashtag #CountyFlagsDay on your photo on <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Twitter<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Facebook<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #993300;\">Instagram<\/span>. Alternatively you can email your picture to us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:countyflagsday@abcounties.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">countyflagsday@abcounties.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?button_hashtag=CountyFlagsDay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/countyflagsday.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/05\/twitter2.png\" alt=\"twitter2\" width=\"188\" height=\"28\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>What if my County doesn&#8217;t have a flag?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/countyflagsday.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/05\/Flintshire.gif\" alt=\"Flintshire\" width=\"151\" height=\"95\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-266\" src=\"http:\/\/countyflagsday.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/05\/Surrey.gif\" alt=\"Surrey\" width=\"160\" height=\"100\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/countyflagsday.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/05\/Oxon.gif\" alt=\"Oxon\" width=\"158\" height=\"99\" \/><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-268\" src=\"http:\/\/countyflagsday.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/05\/Caithness.gif\" alt=\"Caithness\" width=\"155\" height=\"97\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Design a flag for your county and send it in via the same means. Refer to the<em> Flag Institute&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flaginstitute.org\/wp\/british-flags\/creating-local-and-community-flags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guidelines<\/a> on good flag design for help.<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at some proposed flag designs on the <a href=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/proposed-flags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of British Counties&#8217; Flags Blog<\/a>, and again send it in via the same means.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-341\" src=\"http:\/\/countyflagsday.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/05\/suffolk1.jpg\" alt=\"suffolk\" width=\"697\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/files\/2014\/05\/suffolk1.jpg 697w, https:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/files\/2014\/05\/suffolk1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Simple Steps The aim of Historic County Flags Day is to get as many county flags flying across Great Britain as possible on one day, Wednesday 23rd July 2014. You can literally Colour Your County! by following 5 simple &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/whatcanido\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/countyflagsday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}