{"id":1059,"date":"2020-05-18T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2021-12-27T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:31:07","slug":"happy-haitian-flag-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/05\/18\/happy-haitian-flag-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Haitian Flag Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every flag tells the rich story of a people\u2019s culture, their journey towards independence, and the birth of their identity and heritage that would live on for generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the sons and daughters of Haiti celebrate their bicolor flag &#8211; red and blue &#8211; in remembrance of the revolutionaries who paved the way through their sacrifice and their solemn belief that all men were born free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haiti was the first free black republic whose successful slave revolt became a blueprint for several others that sought to end their oppression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May their courage and strength continue to inspire us to work in unison to end the inequities that are prevalent in our present-day society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Haitian Flag Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every flag tells the rich story of a people\u2019s culture, their journey towards independence, and the birth of their identity and heritage that would live on for generations.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the sons and daughters of Haiti celebrate their bicolor flag &#8211; red and blue &#8211; in remembrance of the revolutionaries who paved the way through their sacrifice and their solemn belief that all men were born free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/05\/18\/happy-haitian-flag-day\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}