{"id":3879,"date":"2026-04-04T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:17:45","slug":"united-states-flag-with-thirteen-stripes-and-a-star-for-each-state-was-adopted-in-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"United States Flag with Thirteen Stripes and a Star for Each State Was Adopted in 1818"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/twenty-star-flag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"114\" \/>United States flag with thirteen stripes and a star for each state was adopted in 1818<\/strong>. Prior to this time, a star and stripe was added each time a state was admitted to the Union. By 1817 the flag had twenty stripes and twenty stars, and the flag was becoming cumbersome. Samuel Chester Reid, a naval hero of the War of 1812, suggested the stripes remain at thirteen, and the number of stars change as new states joined the union. Children could view a timeline of the American flag at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/betsy\/flagfact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/betsy\/flagfact.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States flag with thirteen stripes and a star for each state was adopted in 1818. Prior to this time, a star and stripe was added each time a state was admitted to the Union. By 1817 the flag had twenty stripes and twenty stars, and the flag was becoming cumbersome. Samuel Chester Reid, a <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3879' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4662,5454,2373,2372],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4662","tag-april-4","tag-samuel-chester-reid","tag-united-states-flag","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30315,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/30315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}