{"id":759,"date":"2017-05-14T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2017-05-14T16:51:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T16:51:45","slug":"giant-pole-erected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"Giant pole erected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-760\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture111-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"Capture111\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture111-276x300.jpg 276w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capture111.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 The Great Canadian Flag Project group in Windsor have achieved their goal to have a 150-foot flagpole installed at Dieppe Gardens that will fly a 30-by-60 foot Canadian flag at the edge of the Detroit River.\u00a0\u00a0 The flag will be unveiled for the first time on May 20<sup>th<\/sup>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so excited. It is very arousing to have our giant pole pulled out for the world to see\u201d said proud Windsorite Peter Richards as the pole reached its full length on Friday for the first time.\u00a0 \u201cI understand they spent the night before polishing the pole before it was erected\u201d added Mr. Richards.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Windsor has contributed in-kind services and $25,000 for landscaping around the base. \u201cI think everyone can agree that a pole looks bigger and better with proper bush trimming around the base\u201d said City Councilman Frank Edwards to the gathered media.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s been hard for a while now to accomplish this and I am pleased we didn\u2019t have to make any premature announcements. \u00a0I\u2019ve got to tell you I think a pole this big will make a lot of people happy\u201d added the councilman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 The Great Canadian Flag Project group in Windsor have achieved their goal to have a 150-foot flagpole installed at Dieppe Gardens that will fly a 30-by-60 foot Canadian flag at the edge of the Detroit River.\u00a0\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=759\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}