{"id":38472,"count":1,"description":"Uncle Sam is a common national personification of the American government originally used during the War of 1812. He is depicted as a stern elderly man with white hair and a goatee beard. Typically he is dressed in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United States\u2014for example, a top hat with red and white stripes and white stars on a blue band, and red and white striped trousers. The first use of Uncle Sam in literature was in the 1816 allegorical book The Adventures of Uncle Sam in Search After His Lost Honor by Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy, Esq.\nEarlier representative figures of the United States included such beings as \"Brother Jonathan,\" used by Punch magazine. These were overtaken by Uncle Sam somewhere around the time of the Civil War. The female personification \"Columbia\" has seldom been seen since the 1920s. The well-known \"recruitment\" image of Uncle Sam was created by James Montgomery Flagg, an illustrator and portrait artist best known for commercial...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/uncle-sam\/","name":"Uncle Sam","slug":"uncle-sam","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/38472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=38472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}