{"id":784,"date":"2010-07-04T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2010-07-04T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T17:50:37","slug":"on-this-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"On this Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Independence Day (United States) <\/strong>,\u00a0 <strong>Fourth of July<\/strong>,  is a federal holiday in  the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of  Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.  Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks,  parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball  games, family reunions, political speeches and ceremonies, and various  other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and  traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the national  day of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>1776 \u2013July 4th :-\u00a0 In Philadelphia,  the Continental Congress adopted the  <strong>Declaration of  Independence<\/strong>, announcing that the thirteen American colonies were no longer a part of the British Empire.<\/p>\n<p><span>Courtesy:<\/span> wikipedia.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independence Day (United States) ,\u00a0 Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=784\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8237],"tags":[8234,8235,8236,8238,8239,8240],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-this-day","tag-declaration-of-independence","tag-independence-day-is-the-national-day-of-the-united-states","tag-independence-day-united-states","tag-the-fourth","tag-the-fourth-of-july-the-glorious-fourth","tag-the-fourth-of-july-the-glorious-fourth-the-fourth","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}