{"id":654,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/hoisting\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:41","slug":"hoisting","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/hoisting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoisting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Hoisting** is the act of raising a flag from the foot of the staff to its display position. Protocol requires that a flag be hoisted briskly, in contrast to the slow ceremonial lowering at the end of the day. A flag to be flown at half-staff is first hoisted briskly to the truck and only then lowered to the half-staff position; this preserves the ceremonial form even when the final position is one of mourning.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: At morning colours, the ensign is hoisted smartly to the truck on the first stroke of eight bells.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [lowering](\/glossary\/lowering\/), [halyard](\/glossary\/halyard\/), [full-staff](\/glossary\/full-staff\/), [sunrise-to-sunset-rule](\/glossary\/sunrise-to-sunset-rule\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-654","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/654","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=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}