{"id":65274,"date":"2025-06-13T14:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=65274"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:59:27","slug":"genesee-county-batavia-middle-school-celebrates-the-flag-on-friday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/genesee-county-batavia-middle-school-celebrates-the-flag-on-friday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"GENESEE COUNTY\/Batavia Middle School celebrates the flag on Friday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9iQi4PTAgA0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Batavia Middle School celebrated the flag on Friday morning in advance of Flag Day on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batavia Middle School celebrated the flag on Friday morning in advance of Flag Day on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/genesee-county-batavia-middle-school-celebrates-the-flag-on-friday-morning\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[3409,398],"class_list":["post-65274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batavia","tag-batavia-middle-school","tag-flag-day-ceremony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-gYO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9671,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2019\/06\/14\/batavia-flag-day-ceremony-at-batavia-va\/","url_meta":{"origin":65274,"position":0},"title":"BATAVIA\/Flag Day ceremony at Batavia VA","author":"aka","date":"June 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/U1pFAxDQ2iw A Flag Day ceremony was held at the Batavia VA\/ Western New York Healthcare System on Richmond Avenue on Friday morning. 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