{"id":1293,"date":"2014-07-04T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T04:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2014-11-17T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T08:23:13","slug":"for-students-facts-about-us-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/for-students-facts-about-us-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about US Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4th of July is the day when Americans celebrate their country\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/independence-day-usa-for-kids-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1295 aligncenter\" alt=\"independence-day-usa-for-kids-2\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/independence-day-usa-for-kids-2.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/independence-day-usa-for-kids-2.jpg 385w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/independence-day-usa-for-kids-2-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/independence-day-usa-for-kids-2-190x197.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/independence-day-usa-for-kids-2-280x290.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some fun and interesting facts about this date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Declaration of Independence began as a letter to King George to explain why the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain<\/li>\n<li>56 people signed the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson wrote the majority of it<\/li>\n<li>The Declaration of Independence has five parts. They are: the Preamble, the Statement of Human Rights, Charges Against Human Rights, Charges Against the King and Parliament, and the Statement of Separation and Signatures<\/li>\n<li>The Declaration of Independence was started on July 2, 1776 and the Continental Congress approved the final wording on July 4. The American colonies were declared free and independent states<\/li>\n<li>July 4 was officially declared a holiday in 1870, nearly one hundred years after the Declaration of Independence was written<\/li>\n<li>Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of its founders of the Declaration of Independence died on July 4, 1826<\/li>\n<li>July 4 marks a day of liberation in both the Philippines and Rwanda. In the Southeast Asian nation, July 4, known as &#8220;Republic Day,&#8221; marks the date when the United States officially recognized the Philippines as an independent state in 1946<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Independence Day to everyone who celebrate it today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4th of July is the day when Americans celebrate their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[270,182,234,268,186,269],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-4-july","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-for-students","tag-independence-day","tag-interesting-date","tag-usa","cat_35"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}