{"id":1272,"date":"2015-02-02T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:56:38","slug":"fiji-to-remove-union-jack-from-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Fiji to Remove Union Jack from Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A national competition will be held to find a new design (the fifth; the last one dates to 1970)&nbsp;for the 45th anniversary of independence from&nbsp;the UK&nbsp;on 10 October this year.&nbsp;Prime Minister&nbsp;Frank Bainimarama said, \u201cThe Union flag belongs to the British, not us.&nbsp;Britain is a country with whom we are friends and will continue to be so, but they (symbols on flag)&nbsp;are not symbols that are relevant to any Fijian in the 21st century and they should go.&#8221;&nbsp;[Reported on SBS News online 3\/5 February 2015]&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national competition will be held to find a new design (the fifth; the last one dates to 1970)&nbsp;for the 45th anniversary of independence from&nbsp;the UK&nbsp;on 10 October this year.&nbsp;Prime Minister&nbsp;Frank Bainimarama said, \u201cThe Union flag belongs to the British,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}