{"id":40645,"date":"2017-11-08T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40645"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T17:09:47","slug":"why-dont-country-flags-use-the-color-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/why-dont-country-flags-use-the-color-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t Country Flags Use The Color Purple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CYB-pmNs4VQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>After Skool<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 17 Oct 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For centuries purple dye was worth more than gold. The dye used to produce purple fabric came from a sea snail that only lived off the shores of modern day Lebanon. Because it was so rare, purple became associated with royalty. This is the reason you don&#8217;t see purple on country flags. It was just too expensive to produce. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the simplest questions have extraordinary answers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Skool Published on 17 Oct 2017 For centuries purple dye was worth more than gold. The dye used to produce purple fabric came from a sea snail that only lived off the shores of modern day Lebanon. Because it was so rare, purple became associated with royalty. This is the reason you don&#8217;t see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[25,7,370],"tags":[872,618,588,396,561,1423,315],"class_list":["post-40645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-history","category-middle-east","tag-chemistry","tag-clothing","tag-egypt","tag-monarchy","tag-rome","tag-vexillology","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-azz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645","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=40645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40646,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645\/revisions\/40646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}