{"id":3221,"date":"2026-03-12T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:12:16","slug":"mauritius-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3221","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9436\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9436\" class=\"  wp-image-9436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Mauritius.gif\" alt=\"Mauritius\" width=\"168\" height=\"112\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Mauritius<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mauritius celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. It became a free nation in 1968, but it is still part of the British Commonwealth. About 2\/3 the size of Rhode Island, this island country is located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. The island had been colonized by various countries and often served as a way station for navies. About 1.3 million people live on the island, and sugar cane is the predominant crop. Port Louis is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauritius celebrates Independence Day. It became a free nation in 1968, but it is still part of the British Commonwealth. About 2\/3 the size of Rhode Island, this island country is located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. The island had been colonized by various countries and often served as a way station for <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3221' 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":[4450,614,253,868,5381,3369],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4450","tag-british-commonwealth","tag-independence-day","tag-indian-ocean","tag-march-12","tag-mauritius","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\/3221","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=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30302,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/30302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}