{"id":7174,"date":"2026-09-09T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7174"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:54:07","slug":"our-countrys-name-was-chosen-in-1776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7174","title":{"rendered":"Our Country&#8217;s Name Was Chosen in 1776"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flag-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"flag\" width=\"165\" height=\"149\" \/>Second Continental Congress officially named our country the \u201cUnited States of America\u201d in 1776<\/strong>. Previously, the country&#8217;s title was &#8220;United Colonies of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Continental Congress officially named our country the \u201cUnited States of America\u201d in 1776. Previously, the country&#8217;s title was &#8220;United Colonies of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4576,598,5847,1514,1513],"class_list":["post-7174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4576","tag-second-continental-congress","tag-september-9","tag-united-colonies-of-america","tag-united-states-of-america","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7174"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30316,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions\/30316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}