{"id":11279,"date":"2026-06-08T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=11279"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:11:31","slug":"norfolk-island-celebrates-bounty-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=11279","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Island Celebrates Bounty Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11281\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11281\" class=\"wp-image-11281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Norfolk-Island-300x150.gif\" alt=\"Norfolk Island, Bounty Day, Pitcairn Islanders\" width=\"238\" height=\"119\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Norfolk Island<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Norfolk Island celebrates Bounty Day<\/strong>. This self-governing territory of Australia honors the day in 1856 when Pitcairn Islanders on the <em>Bounty<\/em> landed on its shores. This tiny island (about 0.2 the size of Washington, DC) supports about 2,200 people. Kingston is the capital. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/the-world-factbook\/static\/bf72464cd1f9a672a58082e3cccbd7af\/NF-summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norfolk Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norfolk Island celebrates Bounty Day. This self-governing territory of Australia honors the day in 1856 when Pitcairn Islanders on the Bounty landed on its shores. This tiny island (about 0.2 the size of Washington, DC) supports about 2,200 people. Kingston is the capital. Children can learn more at: Norfolk Island.<\/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":[5328,190,5615,189,191],"class_list":["post-11279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5328","tag-bounty-day","tag-june-8","tag-norfolk-island","tag-pitcairn-islanders","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\/11279","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=11279"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24888,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions\/24888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}