{"id":7846,"date":"2026-07-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:42:15","slug":"july-4-is-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2026\/07\/04\/july-4-is-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4 Is Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-TBP-Social-Media-07-Independence-Day.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-TBP-Social-Media-07-Independence-Day-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Image of a book with stars and sparkles on the page.\" class=\"wp-image-7916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-TBP-Social-Media-07-Independence-Day-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-TBP-Social-Media-07-Independence-Day-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-TBP-Social-Media-07-Independence-Day-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-TBP-Social-Media-07-Independence-Day-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-TBP-Social-Media-07-Independence-Day.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn about Independence Day with fun titles from the Talking Book Program\u2019s accessible collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the library:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DOODLE DANDY! THE COMPLETE BOOK OF INDEPENDENCE DAY WORDS (DB 38933) (BR 09864)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FIREWORKS, PICNICS, AND FLAGS (DB 20181) (BR 05516)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FOURTH OF JULY (DB 13593)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about Independence Day with fun titles from the Talking Book Program\u2019s accessible collection. From the library: DOODLE DANDY! THE COMPLETE BOOK OF INDEPENDENCE DAY WORDS (DB 38933) (BR 09864) FIREWORKS, PICNICS, AND FLAGS (DB 20181) (BR 05516) FOURTH OF &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2026\/07\/04\/july-4-is-independence-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,32],"tags":[1053,506,1217,1082,1216,1113],"class_list":["post-7846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-lists","category-holiday-2","tag-america250","tag-book-lists","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-from-the-library","tag-independence-day","tag-texasamerica250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions\/7919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}