{"id":28595,"date":"2024-02-15T20:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=28595"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:46:52","slug":"did-you-know-that-today-is-national-flag-of-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/did-you-know-that-today-is-national-flag-of-canada-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that today is National Flag of Canada Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Canada.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28596\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vive le Canada, long live Canada!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Is there anything more beautiful in the world than the flag of our beautiful country? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Federal Government of Canada website, &#8220;<em>at the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada\u2019s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was declared<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/oLW26\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/oLW26<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested, the brief <em>Youtube<\/em> video below explains the meaning of the Canadian flag. It is followed by our national anthem in both official languages, namely French and English (by singer Lara Fabian), along with beautiful landscapes from across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"National Flag of Canada Day\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NHjwEBn8O6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"O&#039; Canada [National Anthem]\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/arOqjZ6ZDn0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28597\" style=\"width:234px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/heart.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/heart-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anything more beautiful in the world than the flag of our beautiful country? According to the Federal Government of Canada website, &#8220;at the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada\u2019s red and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28598,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595\/revisions\/28598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}