{"id":1228,"date":"2014-01-27T19:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","slug":"morayshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2014\/01\/27\/morayshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Moray(shire) \/ Elgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/01\/Moray.gif\" alt=\"Moray\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moray (also known as Elgin)\u00a0has been associated with arms bearing\u00a0three white stars (mullions) on a blue field for centuries. This simple pattern was originally borne by\u00a0the 13th century Andrew de Moray, a local military and political leader during Scotland&#8217;s Wars of Independence. The three stars were included in the coat of arms<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/01\/Moray-cc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 125px;height: 141px\" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/01\/Moray-cc.png\" alt=\"Moray cc\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>used by the Moray County Council in light of their long association with the locality. A flag featuring these three white stars on blue\u00a0is\u00a0thus a very obvious choice for the basis of any county\u00a0flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moray (also known as Elgin)\u00a0has been associated with arms bearing\u00a0three white stars (mullions) on a blue field for centuries. This simple pattern was originally borne by\u00a0the 13th century Andrew de Moray, a local military and political leader during Scotland&#8217;s Wars of Independence. The three stars &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2014\/01\/27\/morayshire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proposed-traditional-emblems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}