{"id":99708,"date":"2026-07-02T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=99708"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:33:11","slug":"celebrating-250-years-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_02_2026\/celebrating-250-years-of-independence","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 250 Years of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the UToledo community pauses to celebrate Independence Day, this Saturday marks a historic milestone: the 250th birthday of the United States. Wishing everyone in Rocket Nation a safe, festive and happy July Fourth weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-99713\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/US-flag-10282020-1545.jpg\" alt=\"Stock photo of the American Flag with the sun shining behind it. \" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/US-flag-10282020-1545.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/US-flag-10282020-1545-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_02_2026\/celebrating-250-years-of-independence\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/US-flag-10282020-1545-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>As the UToledo community pauses to celebrate Independence Day, this Saturday marks a historic milestone: the 250th birthday of the United States. Wishing everyone in Rocket Nation a safe, festive and happy July Fourth weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":99713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99708"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99736,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99708\/revisions\/99736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}