{"id":13051,"date":"2026-12-11T00:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-12-11T05:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13051"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:07:10","slug":"burkina-faso-celebrates-republic-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13051","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso Celebrates Republic Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13076\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13076\" class=\"wp-image-13076\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Burkina-Faso-300x200.gif\" alt=\"Flag of Burkina Faso\" width=\"209\" height=\"139\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Burkina Faso<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Burkina Faso celebrates Republic Day<\/strong>. In 1958 the Republic of Upper Volta became a self-governing colony of France. Eventually the country changed its name to Burkina Faso and became independent of France. Slightly larger than the state of Colorado, this African country is landlocked. Its land is mostly flat, and its climate is tropical. Over eighteen million people live in Burkina Faso, and Ouagadougou is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burkina Faso celebrates Republic Day. In 1958 the Republic of Upper Volta became a self-governing colony of France. Eventually the country changed its name to Burkina Faso and became independent of France. Slightly larger than the state of Colorado, this African country is landlocked. Its land is mostly flat, and its climate is tropical. Over <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13051' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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":[4472,4471,58,163,4473],"class_list":["post-13051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4472","tag-burkina-faso","tag-december-11","tag-republic-day","tag-republic-of-upper-volta","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\/13051","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=13051"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30383,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions\/30383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}