{"id":27464,"date":"2019-06-28T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=27464"},"modified":"2019-06-28T08:31:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:31:51","slug":"clarksvilles-annual-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence-to-be-held-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/06\/28\/clarksvilles-annual-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence-to-be-held-july-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville&#8217;s annual reading of The Declaration of Independence to be held July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-456429\" title=\"Annual reading of The Declaration of Independence\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Annual-reading-of-The-Declaration-of-Independence.jpg\" alt=\"Annual reading of The Declaration of Independence\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On July 4th, 2019 at 9:00am, the annual reading of The Declaration of Independence will take place on the steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse located on North Second Street in Clarksville. The Clarksville-Montgomery County community is invited to attend this event in Downtown Clarksville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fourth of July is more than barbecues, fireworks and family gatherings,\u201d said David Brockman, event organizer. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a protest or political rally. The goal of this event is to remind us all that the holiday has a deeper symbolic meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_456432\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Clarksvilles-annual-reading-of-The-Declaration-of-Independence-1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456432\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-456432\" title=\"Annual reading of The Declaration of Independence to be held on the steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse, July 4th.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Clarksvilles-annual-reading-of-The-Declaration-of-Independence-1-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Annual reading of The Declaration of Independence to be held on the steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse, July 4th.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-456432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annual reading of The Declaration of Independence to be held on the steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse, July 4th.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now it its 7th year, this event is one of Tennessee\u2019s best kept secrets in regards to Independence Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The event hopes to reinforce the importance of that document in establishing freedom and justice in America and to honor a set of ideals that separate America from every other nation on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Revolutionary War Reenactors and historians will be on-hand to present the colors.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to see how you can get involved, please visit the event\u2019s Facebook page at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ReadingDOI\" >www.facebook.com\/ReadingDOI<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_456433\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Clarksvilles-annual-reading-of-The-Declaration-of-Independence-2.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456433\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-456433\" title=\"Clarksville's annual reading of The Declaration of Independence.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Clarksvilles-annual-reading-of-The-Declaration-of-Independence-2-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Clarksville's annual reading of The Declaration of Independence.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-456433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarksville&#8217;s annual reading of The Declaration of Independence.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; On July 4th, 2019 at 9:00am, the annual reading of The Declaration of Independence will take place on the steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse located on North Second Street in Clarksville. The Clarksville-Montgomery County community is invited to attend this event in Downtown Clarksville. \u201cThe Fourth of July is more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[512,825,696,1266,3569,5612,5125,33789],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-78Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27465,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27464\/revisions\/27465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}