{"id":1846,"date":"2013-07-01T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T17:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2013-07-01T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T17:39:42","slug":"independence-day-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/2013\/07\/01\/independence-day-july-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day, July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/07\/American-Flag-and-Eagle4.jpg\" alt=\"American Flag and Eagle\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>While you may have heard and seen fireworks already this past weekend, Independence Day is actually this coming Thursday, July 4th. Few Americans, unless they are history enthusiasts or better yet, American history professors, can tell you the complete story on this quintessential holiday of ours. For some fun and interesting facts, click the link below.   <a href=\"http:\/\/\">http:\/\/lasvegas.about.com\/od\/historylandmarks\/a\/A-History-Of-The-Fourth-Of-July.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While you may have heard and seen fireworks already this past weekend, Independence Day is actually this coming Thursday, July 4th. Few Americans, unless they are history enthusiasts or better yet, American history professors, can tell you the complete story on this quintessential holiday of ours. For some fun and interesting facts, click the link  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/2013\/07\/01\/independence-day-july-4th\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,212,224,295],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-holiday","tag-fireworks","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-independence-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Independence Day, July 4th - ABC Blog (Annapolis, Baltimore &amp; Columbia, MD)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Independence Day, July 4th - ABC Blog (Annapolis, Baltimore &amp; Columbia, MD)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While you may have heard and seen fireworks already this past weekend, Independence Day is actually this coming Thursday, July 4th. 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