{"id":288,"date":"2026-01-13T11:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=288"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:42:24","slug":"countdown-to-independence","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/event\/countdown-to-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Independence Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-352 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-Guns-in-front-of-Courthouse-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"reenactment in front of courthouse\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-Guns-in-front-of-Courthouse-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-Guns-in-front-of-Courthouse-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-Guns-in-front-of-Courthouse-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-Guns-in-front-of-Courthouse-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-Guns-in-front-of-Courthouse-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-Guns-in-front-of-Courthouse-scaled.jpg 1705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"524\">Join us at the Ocean County Courthouse for a memorable celebration of America\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"524\">The day begins at 10:00 AM with historic music and screenings of Ocean County documentaries produced by the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"524\">At 11:00 AM, enjoy a special commemorative ceremony featuring musical interludes from <em data-start=\"373\" data-end=\"379\">1776<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"524\"><span data-start=\"404\" data-end=\"416\">At <\/span>12:00 PM there will be a historic ceremonial firing and bell ringing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"573\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u00a0Court Room One \u2013 Ocean County Courthouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Join us at the Ocean County Courthouse for a memorable celebration of America\u2019s 250th anniversary. The day begins at 10:00 AM with historic music and screenings of Ocean County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-288","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/288\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/250thAnniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}