{"id":23590,"date":"2015-08-20T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23590"},"modified":"2015-08-20T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:32:59","slug":"possibilities-for-new-zealands-new-national-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/08\/possibilities-for-new-zealands-new-national-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Possibilities for New Zealand&#8217;s New National Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A kiwi bird shooting a deadly laser beam from its eyes, a jolly sheep smiling next to an ice cream and a rainbow pyramid landscape are sadly some of the designs that haven&#8217;t made it through to the shortlist for New Zealand&#8217;s new national flag.\u00a0Almost 10,300 entries from an international open competition have now been whittled down to 40 contenders\u00a0by an expert flag consideration panel, which will select four finalists to go to a public referendum at the end of the year. The country\u2019s prime minister, John Key, has admitted that he\u2019s sick of being forced to sit beneath a flag that\u2019s barely distinguishable from Australia\u2019s at international summits, and has declared that the new flag must \u201cscream New Zealand\u201d. So what cries out the essence of the kiwi, if not ice creams, sheep or deadly robo-birds? Could it be a giant Maori tongue flapping in the wind, caught screaming mid-haka? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/aug\/11\/flag-new-zealand-designs\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kiwi bird shooting a deadly laser beam from its eyes, a jolly sheep smiling next to an ice cream and a rainbow pyramid landscape are sadly some of the designs that haven&#8217;t made it through to the shortlist for New Zealand&#8217;s new national flag.\u00a0Almost 10,300 entries from an international open competition have now been whittled down to 40 contenders\u00a0by an expert flag consideration panel, which will select four finalists to go to a public referendum at the end of the year. The country\u2019s prime minister, John Key, has admitted that he\u2019s sick of being forced to sit beneath a flag that\u2019s barely distinguishable from Australia\u2019s at international summits, and has declared that the new flag must \u201cscream New Zealand\u201d. So what cries out the essence of the kiwi, if not ice creams, sheep or deadly robo-birds? Could it be a giant Maori tongue flapping in the wind, caught screaming mid-haka? Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23601,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23590\/revisions\/23601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}