{"id":144343,"date":"2026-06-25T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=144343"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:23:39","slug":"hillsborough-county-holds-juneteenth-flag-raising-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=144343","title":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY HOLDS JUNETEENTH FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-144344\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Front-Page-Juneteenth-640x426.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Front-Page-Juneteenth-640x426.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Front-Page-Juneteenth-160x107.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Front-Page-Juneteenth.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY HOLDS JUNETEENTH FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Hillsborough County observed\u00a0Juneteenth with its Fifth Annual Juneteenth Flag-Raising Ceremony on Thursday, June 18, at the north entrance of the Frederick B. Karl County Center, downtown Tampa. Several local, state and national elected officials were in attendance. Howard W. Blake High School Air Force Junior ROTC, did the ceremonial raising of the Juneteenth flag. Displaying the flag are: C\/CRA La\u2019titeyanna Nixon and C\/CMSGT Austin Gusteso-Cruz<\/strong><strong>. (Photograph by Frederick Harris)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY HOLDS JUNETEENTH FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hillsborough County observed\u00a0Juneteenth with its Fifth Annual Juneteenth Flag-Raising Ceremony on Thursday, June 18, at the north entrance of the Frederick B. Karl County Center, downtown Tampa. Several local, state and national elected officials were in attendance. Howard W. Blake High School Air Force Junior ROTC, did the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144345,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144343\/revisions\/144345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}