{"id":7157,"date":"2015-06-24T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2015-06-24T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:04:48","slug":"lancasters-thoughts-on-rebel-flag-worth-another-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/06\/lancasters-thoughts-on-rebel-flag-worth-another-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster&#8217;s thoughts on rebel flag worth another read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7158\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/rebelflag.jpg\" alt=\"rebelflag\" width=\"336\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a>In light of all the attention being paid to the Confederate flag these days, I thought I should bring to your attention <a href=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/2014\/08\/guest-editorial-the-confederate-flag-and-the-ndo\/\">a fine op-ed piece<\/a> that Craig Lancester wrote for Last Best News last August.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Confederate flag and the NDO,&#8221; Lancaster wrote about how, as a teenager, he and his classmates at\u00a0Richland High School in North Richland Hills, Texas, rebuffed a request from the local chapter of the NAACP to remove that flag from the school&#8217;s letterhead, uniforms, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It is a good, timely piece, worth reading again. I should also update Craig&#8217;s bio at the end of the piece. It reads:\u00a0<em>Craig Lancaster, of Billings, is the author of the novels \u201c600 Hours of Edward,\u201d \u201cEdward Adrift,\u201d \u201cThe Summer Son\u201d and the forthcoming \u201cThe Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, that forthcoming book has been out for a while, and his new forthcoming book is called &#8220;This Is What I Want.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of all the attention being paid to the Confederate flag these days, I thought I should bring to your attention a fine op-ed piece that Craig Lancester wrote for Last Best News last August. In &#8220;The Confederate flag and the NDO,&#8221; Lancaster wrote about how, as a teenager, he and his classmates at\u00a0Richland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1212,93,1211,957],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-confederate-flag","tag-craig-lancaster","tag-naacp","tag-texas","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}