{"id":23815,"date":"2021-02-23T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=23815"},"modified":"2021-02-25T22:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T03:16:40","slug":"why-are-flags-flying-at-half-staff-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=23815","title":{"rendered":"Why are flags flying at half-staff this week?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have noticed flags flying at half-staff today and paused to wonder why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally, flags fly at half-staff because a notable individual has died, but that isn&#8217;t the case this week. This week flags are flying at half-staff to honor hundreds of thousands of people whose names are not widely known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States passed a grim milestone this week in coronavirus deaths. Since the pandemic began last year, 500,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flags will fly at half-staff until Feb. 26 to honor the 500,000 people in the United States who have died due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of those 500,000 deaths, 14,689 were from Georgia with an additional 2,146 <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2020\/09\/01\/are-covid-19-deaths-being-over-reported-a-local-doctor-explains\/\">deaths in Georgia that were likely caused by COVID-19<\/a>, but not confirmed. As of Monday, Georgia is averaging about 96 coronavirus deaths per day.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed flags flying at half-staff today and paused to wonder why. Normally, flags fly at half-staff because a notable individual has died, but that isn&#8217;t the case this week. This week flags are flying at half-staff to honor hundreds of thousands of people whose names are not widely known. The United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7286],"tags":[8481,8480,9486,8473,8474],"class_list":["post-23815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-latest","tag-media","tag-sun","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}