{"id":10518,"date":"2014-02-08T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10518"},"modified":"2014-02-08T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T17:40:22","slug":"why-do-all-flags-have-the-same-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/why-do-all-flags-have-the-same-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do All Flags Have The Same Shape?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020814_1733_WhyDoAllFla1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reddit&#8217;s AskHistorians section discussed the history of flag design:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ships used to fly flags to show what country they were from. A rectangular flag catches the wind the best.<\/li>\n<li>Soon the idea of flags being used to represent countries at sea turned into flags being used to represent countries in general.<\/li>\n<li>European colonialism then spread this idea to the rest of the world.<\/li>\n<li>There are exceptions. Nepal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nepal_Flag\">flag<\/a> has a non-rectangular shape because it&#8217;s based on the royal standards of its Kings.<\/li>\n<li>The Swiss <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_of_Switzerland\">flag<\/a> is a square because the flag is based upon its military colours which across Europe are usually square.<\/li>\n<li>The Swiss <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flag_of_Switzerland_at_Sea.png\">naval flag<\/a>, however, is rectangular.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/comments\/1xaadb\/why_is_the_rectangular_flag_the_standard_when_did\/\">here<\/a> and see what flags in the past used to look like.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/comments\/1xaadb\/why_is_the_rectangular_flag_the_standard_when_did\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit&#8217;s AskHistorians section discussed the history of flag design: Ships used to fly flags to show what country they were from. A rectangular flag catches the wind the best. Soon the idea of flags being used to represent countries at sea turned into flags being used to represent countries in general. European colonialism then spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020814_1733_WhyDoAllFla1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10521,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions\/10521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}