{"id":85969,"date":"2026-08-30T08:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85969"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:03:37","slug":"mayor-dont-lower-flags-for-dolly-parton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/mayor-dont-lower-flags-for-dolly-parton\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor: Don\u2019t Lower Flags For Dolly Parton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">The mayor of a small city in Mississippi is arguing against lowering the flag to honor Dolly Parton, worrying that it would &#8220;lessen the meaning of the gesture&#8221; in the future.\u00a0&#8220;I believe lowering the American flag to half-staff should mean something very significant,&#8221; Olive Branch,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_politics_article_main-content_article-body_6_1\">Mississippi<\/a>, Mayor Ken Adams wrote on the city\u2019s Facebook page Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;In my opinion, it should be reserved for our\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_politics_article_main-content_article-body_6_2\">military heroes<\/a>, fallen first responders<\/span>, presidents and other major national leaders, or events that have had a tremendous impact on our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: The mayor of a small city in Mississippi is arguing against lowering the flag to honor Dolly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85970,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85969\/revisions\/85970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}