{"id":645,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/half-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:37","slug":"half-staff","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/glossary\/half-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Half-staff** is the position of a flag flown lowered from the truck of the staff, conventionally to a point one flag-depth below the top, as a sign of mourning, distress or respect. The American term &#8216;half-staff&#8217; is generally used for flags on land; &#8216;half-mast&#8217; is reserved at sea. To half-staff a flag, it is first hoisted briskly to the truck and then lowered slowly to the half-staff position.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: In the United States, flags are flown at half-staff on Memorial Day until noon, then raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [half-mast](\/glossary\/half-mast\/), [full-staff](\/glossary\/full-staff\/), [lowering](\/glossary\/lowering\/), [hoisting](\/glossary\/hoisting\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-645","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}