{"id":27387,"date":"2026-04-27T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27387"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:04:49","slug":"sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27387","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22293\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22293\" class=\"wp-image-22293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sierra-Leone-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"139\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Sierra Leone<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sierra Leone celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. In 1961 it broke away from the British government. Located on the western coast of Africa, this small country (about the size of South Carolina) has many diamond deposits. Its climate has a tropical, rainy season from May to December and a dry season from December to April. About 5.6 million people live there. Freetown is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone celebrates Independence Day. In 1961 it broke away from the British government. Located on the western coast of Africa, this small country (about the size of South Carolina) has many diamond deposits. Its climate has a tropical, rainy season from May to December and a dry season from December to April. About 5.6 <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27387' 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":[],"class_list":["post-27387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","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\/27387","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=27387"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30575,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27387\/revisions\/30575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}