{"id":170,"date":"2012-10-12T19:04:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","slug":"gloucestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2012\/10\/12\/gloucestershire\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2012\/10\/Gloucestershire.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSevern Cross\u201d, was the winner of a competition initiated by the county\u2019s Sheriff to commemorate a millennium of the county\u2019s existence. The flag comprises a cross of mid-blue, fimbriated (outlined) in cream (also described as a pale yellow), against an \u201capple green\u201d background. It was designed by Jeremy Bentall, who is quoted as saying that the colours represent features typical of the landscape of Gloucestershire: \u201cThe green is representative of our rural county, the blue the River Severn and the yellow Cotswold Stone.\u201d No specific explanation was given for the choice of a cross design, but obviously it is a popular pattern for English county flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cSevern Cross\u201d, was the winner of a competition initiated by the county\u2019s Sheriff to commemorate a millennium of the county\u2019s existence. The flag comprises a cross of mid-blue, fimbriated (outlined) in cream (also described as a pale yellow), against an \u201capple green\u201d background. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2012\/10\/12\/gloucestershire\/\">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":[7],"tags":[39,38],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-registered-flags","tag-jeremy-bentall","tag-severn-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}