{"id":187160,"date":"2026-03-02T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187160\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:44:08","slug":"happy-texas-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187160\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Texas Independence Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Texas Independence Day is being observed today, March 2, marking 190 years since the state declared its independence from Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed by 59 delegates at Washington-on-the-Brazos, south of College Station, on March 2, 1836, establishing the Republic of Texas as a sovereign nation.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day the declaration was signed, Sam Houston was named commander in chief of the Texas Army. He was later sworn in as the republic&#8217;s first president on Oct. 22, 1836, and was elected to a second term in 1841.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Texas lasted 9 years, 11 months and 17 days before it was annexed by the United States on Feb. 19, 1846, becoming the 28th state.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Texas Independence Day is being observed today, March 2, marking 190 years since the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-187160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}