{"id":26378,"date":"2014-06-18T07:21:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26378"},"modified":"2014-06-18T07:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:21:03","slug":"the-red-ensign-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/the-red-ensign-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Ensign campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_26379\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26379\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/RedEnsign1921-1957.gif\" alt=\"Canadian Red Ensign 1921-1957\" width=\"432\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26379\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian Red Ensign 1921-1957<\/p><\/div>Back in the blogging dark ages, I belonged to a group of libertarian\/conservative bloggers called the Red Ensign Brigade. As time marched on, blogrolls and blog rings faded from the scene: several still exist, but few bloggers get much traffic directly from them. The Red Ensign list went quiet a few years ago, and sometime in the last year the aggregation site disappeared. I still show the Red Ensign in my sidebar, but it no longer links to the brigade.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, I got an email from Brian Bicknell, who runs the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Canadian-Red-Ensign-Campaign\/112375862120448\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Red Ensign Campaign page<\/a> on <em>FaceBook<\/em>, asking if I&#8217;d be willing to assist his efforts. As a fan of the Red Ensign, I&#8217;ve added a link to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flytheredensign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.flytheredensign.com\/<\/a> page, so if you click on the small Red Ensign in my sidebar, it will take you to that web page now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the blogging dark ages, I belonged to a group of libertarian\/conservative bloggers called the Red Ensign Brigade. As time marched on, blogrolls and blog rings faded from the scene: several still exist, but few bloggers get much traffic directly from them. The Red Ensign list went quiet a few years ago, and sometime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[979],"class_list":["post-26378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","tag-redensign"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Rs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26381,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions\/26381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}