{"id":234,"date":"2026-11-01T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:55:11","slug":"antigua-and-barbuda-celebrate-their-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Antigua and Barbuda Celebrate Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8269\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8269\" class=\"  wp-image-8269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Antigua-Barbuda.gif\" alt=\"Antigua Barbuda\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Antigua and Barbuda<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Antigua and Barbuda celebrate Independence Day<\/strong>. The two islands gained their independence from the United Kingdom in 1981. However, the two-island nation still recognizes King Charles III as their monarch. According to <em>The CIA World Factbook<\/em>, the combined area of the two islands and smaller islands under their control is about 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC. Located in the Caribbean, southeast of Puerto Rico, their tropical climate attracts tourists. Tourism accounts for about 60 percent of their income. About 90,000 people call the islands their homes, and Saint John&#8217;s is the capital. How can children celebrate this holiday? They can peel, slice and saut\u00e9 some plantain\u2026yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antigua and Barbuda celebrate Independence Day. The two islands gained their independence from the United Kingdom in 1981. However, the two-island nation still recognizes King Charles III as their monarch. According to The CIA World Factbook, the combined area of the two islands and smaller islands under their control is about 2.5 times the size <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=234' 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":[5810,3713,3714,253,5986,3715,172],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5810","tag-antigua-and-barbuda","tag-caribbean","tag-independence-day","tag-november-1","tag-saint-johns","tag-united-kingdom","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\/234","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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30219,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/30219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}