{"id":11252,"date":"2026-09-21T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=11252"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:48:16","slug":"malta-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=11252","title":{"rendered":"Malta Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11254\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11254\" class=\" wp-image-11254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Malta-300x200.gif\" alt=\"Flag of Malta\" width=\"195\" height=\"130\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Malta<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Malta celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. In 1964 it broke away from the United Kingdom. The area of the islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea, is a bit less than twice the size of Washington, DC. Much of its economy is based on tourism and shipping. Over 400,000 people consider Malta home, and Valletta is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malta celebrates Independence Day. In 1964 it broke away from the United Kingdom. The area of the islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea, is a bit less than twice the size of Washington, DC. Much of its economy is based on tourism and shipping. Over 400,000 people consider Malta home, and Valletta 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":[3033,253,1667,1668,5875,5876],"class_list":["post-11252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-3033","tag-independence-day","tag-malta","tag-mediterranean-sea","tag-september-21","tag-valletta","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\/11252","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=11252"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30755,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252\/revisions\/30755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}