{"id":7646,"date":"2021-01-13T17:14:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=149684"},"modified":"2021-01-13T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:14:47","slug":"the-day-the-confederate-flag-flew-in-the-united-states-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/the-day-the-confederate-flag-flew-in-the-united-states-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day the Confederate Flag Flew in the United States Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Bill Moyers, Heather Cox Richardson<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>What happened in the 1850s and what happened in the present are very similar in a number of ways, though the symbol of the insurrectionist Confederate army never flew in that nation&#8217;s capitol\u2014not once\u2014until January 6, 2021.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/views-article\/thumbs\/america-11_0.jpg?itok=ZXPwGY3t\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest in the US Capitol Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (Photo: Saul Loeb\/ AFP)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/13\/the-day-the-confederate-flag-flew-in-the-united-states-capitol\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Moyers, Heather Cox Richardson What happened in the 1850s and what happened in the present are very similar in a number of ways, though the symbol of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7647,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}