{"id":28,"date":"2012-10-22T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","slug":"28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2012\/10\/22\/28\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams &#8211; a fan of the Staffordshire Knot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy debate regarding an appropriate flag for the county of Staffordshire and following consultation with the Flag Institute we have settled on a proposed design that features a gold Stafford knot on a red background, the original illustration coming from Brady Ells.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Brady Staffordshire - red\" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2012\/10\/Brady-Staffordshire-red.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brady has since drawn to my attention the fact that one of the county&#8217;s most famous sons, singer Robbie Williams\u00a0 is also a fan of this symbol. He sports a Stafford Knot tattoo on his hand,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fig 23\" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2012\/10\/fig-231-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"201\" \/> and in close up<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fig 24\" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2012\/10\/fig-242-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and also uses a stylised version of the device as the trademark for his fashion range<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fig 25\" src=\"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/files\/2012\/10\/fig-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so hopefully, when we get round to promoting this proposal, we may able to enlist the Stoke man&#8217;s support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy debate regarding an appropriate flag for the county of Staffordshire and following consultation with the Flag Institute we have settled on a proposed design that features a gold Stafford knot on a red background, the original illustration coming from Brady Ells. Brady &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2012\/10\/22\/28\/\">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":[1],"tags":[10,9,4],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-knot","tag-robbie","tag-staffordshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}