{"id":34404,"date":"2018-10-02T12:21:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34404"},"modified":"2018-10-02T12:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:21:55","slug":"bringing-good-things-from-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34404","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Good Things Out Of A Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the video of the flag at the Frying Pan Tower during Hurricane Florence:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d4DnWBvKnkM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Frying Pan Tower is a Coast Guard Light Station located 34 miles off the coast of North Carolina that has been turned into a unique adventure bed and breakfast like no other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/10\/02\/american-flag-hurricane-florence-auction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article today about the flag in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>An American flag that flew off the coast of North Carolina survived winds of over 100 mph from Hurricane Florence and was sold for over $10,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Richard Neal, owner of the Frying Pan Tower where the flag once flew, said it was meant to be a symbol of the pride and resilience of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/06\/27\/non-profit-veteran-equipment-stolen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWhat we wanted to do when we put it up there was nothing more than saying this is\u00a0America,\u201d Neal told \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d Tuesday. \u201cWe are proud of it and we go through storms together and we survive. We hang on and we rebuild.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The flag was auctioned off for $10,900 Sunday and all the proceeds are going to help victims of Hurricane Florence through the Red Cross, ABC11\u00a0WTVD\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/frying-pan-tower-flag-sold-for-$10k;-proceeds-to-help-florence-victims\/4381501\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the video of the flag at the Frying Pan Tower during Hurricane Florence: The Frying Pan Tower is a Coast Guard Light Station located 34 miles off the coast of North Carolina that has been turned into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5213,11814,11804,4074,7015],"class_list":["post-34404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fox-friends","tag-frying-pan-tower","tag-hurricane-florence","tag-red-cross","tag-the-daily-caller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34406,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34404\/revisions\/34406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}