{"id":1981,"date":"2014-02-23T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T09:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","slug":"west-lothian-linlithgowshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2014\/02\/23\/west-lothian-linlithgowshire\/","title":{"rendered":"West Lothian &#8211; Linlithgowshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/02\/West-Lothian.gif\" alt=\"West Lothian\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The proposal is the work of Brady Ells. It\u00a0incorporates the earlier golden sun on maroon flag for the Lothian region as a whole devised by Philip Tibbetts<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"noframe aligncenter wp-image-1969\" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/02\/Lothian-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Lothian\" width=\"142\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/files\/2014\/02\/Lothian-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/files\/2014\/02\/Lothian-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/files\/2014\/02\/Lothian-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/files\/2014\/02\/Lothian-349x210.jpg 349w, https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/files\/2014\/02\/Lothian-266x160.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; see the post on Midlothian for a fuller background into the Lothian flag.<\/p>\n<p>The Patron Saint of Linlithgow, the county town,\u00a0is Saint Michael who\u00a0features on\u00a0its coat of arms as seen in this illustration from The Book of Public Arms by A.C. Fox-Davies 1894<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"noframe aligncenter wp-image-2119\" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2014\/02\/Linlithgow.png\" alt=\"Linlithgow\" width=\"221\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brady&#8217;s proposal therefore combines the angelic wings of Saint Michael with the\u00a0Lothian sun. In\u00a0combination\u00a0these also\u00a0convey the theme of a halo as appears on the arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal is the work of Brady Ells. It\u00a0incorporates the earlier golden sun on maroon flag for the Lothian region as a whole devised by Philip Tibbetts &#8211; see the post on Midlothian for a fuller background into the Lothian flag. The Patron Saint of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2014\/02\/23\/west-lothian-linlithgowshire\/\">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":[8,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-flags","category-proposed-flags-novel-designs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","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=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}