{"id":1108,"date":"2013-04-11T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T09:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","slug":"worcestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2013\/04\/11\/worcestershire\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2013\/04\/Worcestershire.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Worcestershire\" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2013\/04\/Worcestershire.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Worcestershire flag was chosen by public vote on BBC Hereford and Worcester.<\/p>\n<p>The design by Elaine Truby of Worcester is described in an article from Worcester News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mrs Truby, a 51-years-old podiatrist with the National Health Service, traces her artistic ability back to her years at the former Worcester Grammar School for Girls in Spetchley Road, when she did A-level art.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cut patterns out every day as part of my job and I created the design by cutting out sugar paper and laying it on a table top,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI chose the three black pears because they are synonymous with Worcester and the colour green because Worcestershire is such a green county and blue for the rivers that run through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(available at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/10337675.Fly_the_flag_for_Worcestershire\/\">http:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/10337675.Fly_the_flag_for_Worcestershire\/<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Flag can be found at the UK Flag Registry here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ukflagregistry.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Worcestershire\">http:\/\/ukflagregistry.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Worcestershire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Worcestershire flag was chosen by public vote on BBC Hereford and Worcester. The design by Elaine Truby of Worcester is described in an article from Worcester News: Mrs Truby, a 51-years-old podiatrist with the National Health Service, traces her artistic ability back to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2013\/04\/11\/worcestershire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-registered-flags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}