{"id":52679,"date":"2014-06-13T05:33:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=52679"},"modified":"2014-06-13T05:33:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:33:57","slug":"local-elks-hold-2014-flag-day-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/06\/13\/local-elks-hold-2014-flag-day-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Elks hold 2014 Flag Day ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>VW Elks information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, held its annual Flag Day ceremony on Thursday at the local lodge.<\/p>\n<p>Assisting this year with the display of flags during the \u201cHistory of the Flag\u201d was Van Wert Composite Squadron 296 of the Civil Air Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The Elks is the first and only fraternal organization to mandate that, every year, each Elks Lodge must conduct a solemn and beautiful Flag Day ceremony.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52680\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Elks-Flag-Day-ceremony-6-2014.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52680 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Members of the local Civil Air Patrol squadron display American flags during the Van Wert Elks Flag Day ceremony. (Elks photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Elks-Flag-Day-ceremony-6-2014.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the local Civil Air Patrol squadron display American flags during the Van Wert Elks Flag Day ceremony. (Elks photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW Elks information Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, held its annual Flag Day ceremony on Thursday at the local lodge. Assisting this year with the display of flags during the \u201cHistory of the Flag\u201d was Van Wert Composite Squadron 296 of the Civil Air Patrol. The Elks is the first [&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-52679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 05:37:46","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\/52679","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=52679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}