{"id":11783,"date":"2012-07-04T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=11783"},"modified":"2012-07-04T05:32:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:32:59","slug":"independence-day-a-holiday-made-for-the-stars-and-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/07\/04\/independence-day-a-holiday-made-for-the-stars-and-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day, a Holiday made for the Stars and Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Frazier-Allen.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120557 alignleft\" title=\"Frazier Allen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Frazier-Allen.jpg\" alt=\"Frazier Allen\" width=\"132\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; There are a lot of great stories about Independence Day. But one of my favorites involves a high school student from Lancaster, Ohio and the interesting agreement he made with his teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1958, as Hawaii was coming into the Union, more than 1,000 people sent President Eisenhower their ideas for both a 49 and a 50-starred U.S. flag. A number of those designs came from high-school teacher Stanley Pratt\u2019s students.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Happy-Independence-Day.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-127062\" title=\"Happy Independence Day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Happy-Independence-Day-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Independence Day\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more-->As a project for class, Pratt asked his students to create ideas for the new flag and submit them to Washington. One of his students, Bob Heft, participated in the assignment and received a B- on his class work.<\/p>\n<p>Heft was less than thrilled about the grade and later asked his teacher about it, who jokingly told Heft that if Congress chose his design, he would receive a higher grade.<\/p>\n<p>Well, one Presidential proclamation later, Heft\u2019s 50-starred design became the very one we use on U.S. flags today. The nation got a newly designed flag. And Bob Heft got an A.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019re able to make some great stories of your own during our nation\u2019s star-spangled holiday. Have a safe and happy Independence Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; There are a lot of great stories about Independence Day. But one of my favorites involves a high school student from Lancaster, Ohio and the interesting agreement he made with his teacher. Back in 1958, as Hawaii was coming into the Union, more than 1,000 people sent President Eisenhower their ideas for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[15445,825,15443,3309,3571,15442,13620,15444],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-343","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11785,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783\/revisions\/11785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}