{"id":275,"date":"2009-05-23T13:04:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T20:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.independencedayfun.com\/blog\/275\/a-song-of-our-flag\/"},"modified":"2009-05-23T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T20:04:50","slug":"a-song-of-our-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/independenceday\/275\/a-song-of-our-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song of Our Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Wilbur D. Nesbit<\/p>\n<p>Your Flag and my Flag!<br \/>And, oh, how much it holds &#8211;<br \/>Your land and my land &#8211;<br \/>Secure within its folds!<br \/>Your heart and my heart<br \/>Beat quicker at the sight;<br \/>Sun-kissed and wind-tossed,<br \/>Red and blue and white.<br \/>The one Flag &#8211; the great Flag &#8211; the Flag for me and you &#8211;<br \/>Glorified all else beside &#8211; the red and white and blue!<\/p>\n<p>Your Flag and my Flag!<br \/>To every star and stripe<br \/>The drums beat as hearts beat<br \/>And fifers shrilly pipe!<br \/>Your Flag and my Flag &#8211;<br \/>A blessing in the sky;<br \/>Your hope and my hope &#8211;<br \/>It never hid a lie!<br \/>Home land and far land and half the world around,<br \/>Old Glory hears our glad salute and ripples to the sound!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wilbur D. Nesbit Your Flag and my Flag!And, oh, how much it holds &#8211;Your land and my land &#8211;Secure within its folds!Your heart and my heartBeat quicker at the sight;Sun-kissed and wind-tossed,Red and blue and white.The one Flag &#8211; &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/independenceday\/275\/a-song-of-our-flag\/\">[Continue]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[18,34,44,19,299],"class_list":{"0":"post-275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poems","7":"tag-4th-of-july","8":"tag-flag","9":"tag-independence-day","10":"tag-july-4th","11":"tag-old-glory","12":"entry","13":"gs-1","14":"gs-odd","15":"gs-even","16":"gs-featured-content-entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Song of Our Flag &#187; Independence Day \u00bb Surfnetkids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Wilbur D. 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