{"id":410,"date":"2025-06-27T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=410"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:46:26","slug":"july-4-2012-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/06\/27\/july-4-2012-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4, 2025: Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Fourth-of-July.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1367\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Happy-4th-of-July-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>Independence Day<\/strong>, commonly known as the\u00a0<strong>Fourth of July<\/strong>, is a\u00a0<a title=\"Federal holidays in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States\">federal holiday<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a>\u00a0commemorating the adoption of the\u00a0<a title=\"United States Declaration of Independence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence\">Declaration of Independence<\/a>\u00a0on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the\u00a0<a title=\"Kingdom of Great Britain\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain\">Kingdom of Great Britain<\/a>. Independence Day is commonly associated with\u00a0<a title=\"Fireworks\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fireworks\">fireworks<\/a>, parades,\u00a0<a title=\"Barbecue\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbecue\">barbecues<\/a>, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts,\u00a0<a title=\"Baseball game\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baseball_game\">baseball games<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Family reunion\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Family_reunion\">family reunions<\/a>, and political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the\u00a0<a title=\"National Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Day\">national day<\/a>\u00a0of the United States.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independence Day, commonly known as the\u00a0Fourth of July, is a\u00a0federal holiday\u00a0in the\u00a0United States\u00a0commemorating the adoption of the\u00a0Declaration of Independence\u00a0on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the\u00a0Kingdom of Great Britain. Independence Day is commonly associated with\u00a0fireworks, parades,\u00a0barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts,\u00a0baseball &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/06\/27\/july-4-2012-fourth-of-july\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}