{"id":15729,"date":"2016-07-26T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15729"},"modified":"2016-07-26T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:00:54","slug":"video-american-flag-burned-at-alabama-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/07\/26\/video-american-flag-burned-at-alabama-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: American flag burned at Alabama post office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/WAAY.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=490966243;hostDomain=video.waaytv.com;playerWidth=475;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=12618356;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WAAYTV.com - Huntsville, Alabama - News Weather, Sports | \" href=\"http:\/\/video.waaytv.com\">WAAYTV.com &#8211; Huntsville, Alabama &#8211; via PEN <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">An American flag, lit on fire and burned in broad daylight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Now investigators are looking for who did it and residents are left stunned. It happened in Hillsboro at the post office last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty bad that someone would stoop to that level,&#8221; said a local Hillsboro resident Kevin Coffrey. Coffrey lives near the post office in Hillsboro where the American flag once flew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Wednesday morning, shortly after the post office opened, a customer alerted the clerk who was on duty that the flag had been burned. Only a small piece remains of the flag and the pole is left with burn marks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waaytv.com\/appnews\/american-flag-burned-at-local-alabama-post-office\/article_d9875b4e-52b5-11e6-bf92-7b53174ca095.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15732\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hillsboro-Alabama-PO.jpg\" alt=\"Hillsboro-Alabama-PO\" width=\"459\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hillsboro-Alabama-PO.jpg 459w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hillsboro-Alabama-PO-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hillsboro-Alabama-PO-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hillsboro-Alabama-PO-254x141.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAAYTV.com &#8211; Huntsville, Alabama &#8211; via PEN An American flag, lit on fire and burned in broad daylight.\u00a0 Now investigators are looking for who did it and residents are left stunned. It happened in Hillsboro at the post office last Wednesday. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty bad that someone would stoop to that level,&#8221; said a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15733,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions\/15733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}