{"id":3778,"date":"2022-07-03T09:38:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T09:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2024-07-25T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:10:34","slug":"making-sense-of-the-4th-of-july-for-the-swiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/2022\/07\/03\/making-sense-of-the-4th-of-july-for-the-swiss\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKING SENSE OF THE 4th OF JULY FOR THE SWISS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are Americans as crazy about the 4th of July as they are of, say, Halloween? Or Christmas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, it\u2019s not THAT big of a deal, but we do love<\/em> it. Americans spent more than 7.52 BILLION dollars<\/a> last year on cookouts and other July 4th celebrations – which makes sense when around 82%<\/em> of the 334 million<\/em> Americans celebrated Independence Day last year. That’s a lot of food, booze, fireworks and flags! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But quick question: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it the 4th of July or July 4th? Or Independence Day?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All of these are correct!<\/a> Sure, in the USA, dates are normally<\/em> expressed MONTH + DAY (without<\/em> the word \u201cthe\u201d). So when talking about appointments or other dates like birthdays, Americans say, \u201cMy dentist appointment is on July 4th.\u201d But to talk about the holiday Americans have been celebrating since 1776, the holiday<\/em> is more commonly referred to as \u201cthe<\/strong> 4th of <\/strong>July\u201d. This is the British<\/em> style of giving dates, which is ironic because, of course, this day is the celebration of when the USA officially declared themselves independent from the British Empire – the federal holiday is officially called \u201cIndependence Day\u201d – which we all know from the Will Smith movie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picnics and BBQs, parades and huge firework displays – the 4th of July is a fantastic time to be with friends and family. In fact, in many ways the American holiday is similar to the Swiss National Day on the 1st of August. But…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does the 4th of July compare to 1 August?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Here’s a side-by-side comparison of these two big holidays:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What’s July 4th about? Why is it such a big deal? And how is it different from the Swiss National Day?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,60,61],"tags":[89,92,95,91,87,88,90,94,93,86],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-culture","category-history","tag-1-august","tag-america-vs-switzerland","tag-american-vs-swiss","tag-independence-day","tag-july-4","tag-july-4th","tag-swiss-national-day","tag-swiss-vs-american","tag-switzerland-vs-america","tag-the-4th-of-july"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/July4.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Mary McKinley","author_link":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/author\/mary\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastenglish.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}