{"id":3075,"date":"2026-03-06T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:03:53","slug":"ghana-celebrates-its-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3075","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9422\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9422\" class=\"wp-image-9422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ghana.gif\" alt=\"Ghana\" width=\"168\" height=\"112\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Ghana<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. It became free from the rule of Great Britain in 1957. According to the<em> CIA World Factbook<\/em>, Ghana is a bit smaller than the state of Oregon. Located on the southern coast of West Africa, the country surrounds Lake Volta, the largest man-made lake in the world. About 25 million people live in Ghana. Accra is the capital, and farmers grow cocoa, rice, and coffee. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/geography\/countries\/article\/ghana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana celebrates Independence Day. It became free from the rule of Great Britain in 1957. According to the CIA World Factbook, Ghana is a bit smaller than the state of Oregon. Located on the southern coast of West Africa, the country surrounds Lake Volta, the largest man-made lake in the world. About 25 million people <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3075' 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":[5364,3294,409,253,3295,4292,2371],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5364","tag-ghana","tag-great-britain","tag-independence-day","tag-lake-volta","tag-march-6","tag-west-africa","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\/3075","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=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30318,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions\/30318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}