{"id":10936,"date":"2026-11-18T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-18T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=10936"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:49:43","slug":"latvia-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=10936","title":{"rendered":"Latvia Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10938\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10938\" class=\"wp-image-10938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Latvia.gif\" alt=\"Flag of Latvia\" width=\"238\" height=\"118\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Latvia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Latvia celebrates Independence Day, the day in 1918 when the country declared its freedom from Soviet Russia.<\/strong> Slightly larger than the state of West Virginia, Latvia borders the Baltic Sea. Its neighbors include Lithuania and Estonia. Over two million people live in Latvia, and Riga is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvia celebrates Independence Day, the day in 1918 when the country declared its freedom from Soviet Russia. Slightly larger than the state of West Virginia, Latvia borders the Baltic Sea. Its neighbors include Lithuania and Estonia. Over two million people live in Latvia, and Riga is the capital.<\/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":[5312,253,2590,3942,3933,3932],"class_list":["post-10936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5312","tag-independence-day","tag-latvia","tag-november-18","tag-riga","tag-soviet-russia","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\/10936","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=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30230,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions\/30230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}