{"id":2244434,"date":"2026-01-21T19:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2244434"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:42:17","slug":"the-real-story-of-the-star-spangled-banner-kgou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-real-story-of-the-star-spangled-banner-kgou\/","title":{"rendered":"The real story of &#8216;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8217; | KGOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Few people know the real story of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner,\u201d or that the massive flag that inspires it still exists.<\/p>\n<p><i>Here &amp; Now<\/i>\u2018s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with<b> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.si.edu\/display\/njonesjl1102006\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\"> Jennifer Jones<\/a><\/b>, a curator of the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of American History, about the history of the banner.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enh\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"420\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/fdce6b6\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1000x652+0+0\/resize\/840x548!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.wbur.org%2Fwp%2F2026%2F01%2FFlag-chamber-1-1000x652.jpg 2x\" data-size=\"fallbackImageSizeMobile\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/c9c0786\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1000x652+0+0\/resize\/420x274!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.wbur.org%2Fwp%2F2026%2F01%2FFlag-chamber-1-1000x652.jpg\" data-size=\"fallbackImageSizeMobile\"\/><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"880\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/d9b62cb\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1000x652+0+0\/resize\/1760x1148!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.wbur.org%2Fwp%2F2026%2F01%2FFlag-chamber-1-1000x652.jpg 2x\" data-size=\"fallbackImageSize\"\/><source width=\"880\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/85b61a3\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1000x652+0+0\/resize\/880x574!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.wbur.org%2Fwp%2F2026%2F01%2FFlag-chamber-1-1000x652.jpg\" data-size=\"fallbackImageSize\"\/><\/p>\n<\/picture>\n<div class=\"Figure-content\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\">The flag that inspired the &#8220;Star Spangled Banner&#8221; on display. (Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institute)<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>This article was originally published on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/01\/21\/star-spangled-banner-smithsonian\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '130719443711',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kgou.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few people know the real story of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner,\u201d or that the massive flag that inspires it still exists. Here &amp; Now\u2018s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Jennifer Jones, a curator of the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of American History, about the history of the banner. The flag that inspired the &#8220;Star Spangled Banner&#8221; on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-real-story-of-The-Star-Spangled-Banner-KGOU.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244436,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244434\/revisions\/2244436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}