{"id":174384,"date":"2024-01-05T23:29:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T04:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=174384"},"modified":"2024-01-05T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T04:30:00","slug":"essay-contest-winners-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/01\/05\/essay-contest-winners-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay contest winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4thflagwinner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174385\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>American Legion Post 346 recently hosted a fourth grade flag education contest. Students were given a book entitled \u201cOur Country\u2019s Flag,\u201d in which they learned about the history of the flag and how we are to demonstrate care and respect towards it. Students then took a multiple choice test and wrote an essay with the prompt \u201cWhat do you think about when you see our country\u2019s flag?\u201d Shown are winners of the contest, including first place boy Jaxon and runner-up Kayden along with first place girl Willow and runner-up Leigha. Awards were distributed by Jed Couts, Commander Bill Evans and his grandson, Corbin Evans, who recently graduated from the Parris Island to become a United States Marine. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Legion Post 346 recently hosted a fourth grade flag education contest. Students were given a book entitled \u201cOur Country\u2019s Flag,\u201d in which they learned about the history of the flag and how we are to demonstrate care and respect towards it. Students then took a multiple choice test and wrote an essay with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 06:31:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174386,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174384\/revisions\/174386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}