{"id":23152,"date":"2016-09-14T15:42:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23152"},"modified":"2016-09-14T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:42:22","slug":"american-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/american-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk of the Town: American Patriot&#8217;s U.S. Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/brinflag.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/information\/chris-macdonald.html\">Chris MacDonald<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have recently traveled on\u00a0Goldenwest Street in Huntington Beach, you&#8217;ve probably done a double-take seeing\u00a0one of the biggest U.S. flags flying high atop two 85-foot tall Washingtonia robusta palm trees on oil man and landscape contractor Ron Brindle&#8217;s property. Spectacularly illuminated at night with red, white and blue lights, the patriotic former Navy Seabee&#8217;s flag can be seen far away. More than 20-feet wide and 30-feet long, it was originally given to the parents of a deceased serviceman.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I respect everyone serving in our military, and especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to help keep us Free. It&#8217;s a privilege to fly the flag in their honor,&#8221; said Brindle.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I love the flag and all that it&#8217;s about,&#8221; said former U.S. Marine Erik Peterson.<br \/>\n&#8220;It makes me glad to be an American,&#8221; said Rosa Martinez, who stopped to see it with her clildren, Jose, Maria and Joaquin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris MacDonald If you have recently traveled on\u00a0Goldenwest Street in Huntington Beach, you&#8217;ve probably done a double-take seeing\u00a0one of the biggest U.S. flags flying high atop two 85-foot tall Washingtonia robusta palm trees on oil man and landscape contractor Ron Brindle&#8217;s property. Spectacularly illuminated at night with red, white and blue lights, the patriotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}