{"id":76592,"date":"2017-05-01T12:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=76592"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T23:10:40","slug":"palmdale-sponsoring-flag-day-essay-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/05\/01\/palmdale-sponsoring-flag-day-essay-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale sponsoring Flag Day essay contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38303\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flag-Day-2013-1-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flag-Day-2013-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flag-Day-2013-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flag-Day-2013-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PALMDALE \u2013 The city of Palmdale is accepting submissions for its inaugural Flag Day essay contest being held in conjunction with the city\u2019s upcoming Flag Day Ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The essay contest theme is <em>\u201cWhat the Flag Means to Me.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contest is free to enter and open to all ages. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essays must be no longer than 500 words. Only one entry per person. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Entries must be submitted online at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofpalmdale.org\/engaged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.cityofpalmdale.org\/engaged<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, between May 1 and May 29.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prizes will be awarded in the following categories: elementary school, intermediate school, high school and adult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winners will be recognized at the Flag Day Ceremony,\u00a0scheduled for Wednesday, June 14, at Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, located at 2001 East Avenue P in Palmdale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur flag has significant meaning in many different ways to many different people,\u201d stated Palmdale\u2019s Community Programs Coordinator Trish Jones. \u201cWhat does it mean to you? \u00a0Write down your thoughts and send them to us. You may be one of our contest winners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on Palmdale&#8217;s inaugural Flag Day essay, contact Trish Jones at 661-261-5143.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 The city of Palmdale is accepting submissions for its inaugural Flag Day essay contest being held in conjunction with the city\u2019s upcoming Flag Day Ceremony. The essay contest theme is \u201cWhat the Flag Means to Me.\u201d The contest is free to enter and open to all ages. Essays must be no longer than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}