{"id":1767,"date":"2026-01-04T00:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:14:38","slug":"myanmar-also-known-as-burma-celebrates-its-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar, also Known as Burma, Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9027\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9027\" class=\"  wp-image-9027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Myanmar.gif\" alt=\"Myanmar\" width=\"179\" height=\"101\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Myanmar<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Myanmar, also known as Burma, celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. It became free from British rule in 1948. According to the <em>CIA World Factbook<\/em>, Myanmar is a bit smaller than Texas. About 55 million people live in this southeast Asian country, and about 4.25 million people live in the capital of Rangoon. Monsoons plague this resource-rich, including natural gas, timber, and mining, country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar, also known as Burma, celebrates Independence Day. It became free from British rule in 1948. According to the CIA World Factbook, Myanmar is a bit smaller than Texas. About 55 million people live in this southeast Asian country, and about 4.25 million people live in the capital of Rangoon. Monsoons plague this resource-rich, including <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1767' 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":[4820,4818,409,253,88,4817,4819],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4820","tag-burma","tag-great-britain","tag-independence-day","tag-january-4","tag-myanmar","tag-rangoon","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\/1767","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=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30268,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/30268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}