{"id":95855,"date":"2025-11-14T03:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=95855"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:05:28","slug":"ceremonial-send-off-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_14_2025\/ceremonial-send-off-2","title":{"rendered":"Ceremonial Send-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the UToledo Army ROTC color guard, from left, Patrick Kovach, a sophomore in political science, and Cadet Ingrid Harmon, a senior in exercise science, properly dispose of an American flag that is no longer suitable for display as part of a flag retirement ceremony Wednesday afternoon in Centennial Mall.<\/p>\n<p>At the podium speaking is Collin McMullen, a sophomore in pre-business administration, who is in the U.S. Army Reserve. Approximately 150 American flags were retired during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-95879\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Flag-Retirement-Ceremony-2025-3H1A0708.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the UToledo Army ROTC color guard, from left, Patrick Kovach, a sophomore in political science major, and Cadet Ingrid Harmon, a senior in exercise science, properly dispose of an American flag that is no longer suitable for display as part of a flag retirement ceremony Wednesday afternoon in Centennial Mall.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Flag-Retirement-Ceremony-2025-3H1A0708.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Flag-Retirement-Ceremony-2025-3H1A0708-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_14_2025\/ceremonial-send-off-2\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Flag-Retirement-Ceremony-2025-3H1A0708-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Members of the UToledo Army ROTC color guard, from left, Patrick Kovach, a sophomore in political science major, and Cadet Ingrid Harmon, a senior in exercise science, properly dispose of an American flag that is no longer suitable for display as part of a flag retirement ceremony Wednesday afternoon in Centennial Mall.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Members of the UToledo Army ROTC color guard properly dispose of an American flag that is no longer suitable for display as part of a flag retirement ceremony Wednesday afternoon in Centennial Mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":920,"featured_media":95879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,32,61,498,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95891,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95855\/revisions\/95891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}