{"id":647,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/full-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:38","slug":"full-staff","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/full-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Full-staff** (or full-mast at sea) is the normal position of a flag, with the hoist edge two-blocked at the truck of the staff. A flag flown at full-staff signals ordinary public display; the lowering of a flag from full-staff to half-staff is itself a deliberate act of mourning or signalling. Returning a flag from half-staff to full-staff is performed slowly and with ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: On flag days, national flags are displayed at full-staff from sunrise to sunset unless other instructions are in force.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [half-staff](\/glossary\/half-staff\/), [half-mast](\/glossary\/half-mast\/), [hoisting](\/glossary\/hoisting\/), [sunrise-to-sunset-rule](\/glossary\/sunrise-to-sunset-rule\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-647","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}