{"id":3535,"date":"2026-03-24T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:58:38","slug":"the-philippines-celebrates-its-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3535","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines Celebrate Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9513\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9513\" class=\"  wp-image-9513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Philippines.gif\" alt=\"Philippines\" width=\"210\" height=\"105\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Philippines<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Philippines celebrate Independence Day<\/strong>. In 1934 the United States granted the Philippines its independence. The treaty took effect in 1946. The Philippines had been sold to the United States in 1898 for twenty million dollars. Manila is the capital, and the country was named after Spain\u2019s King Philip II. Over 7,100 islands comprise the country. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/geography\/countries\/article\/philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines celebrate Independence Day. In 1934 the United States granted the Philippines its independence. The treaty took effect in 1946. The Philippines had been sold to the United States in 1898 for twenty million dollars. Manila is the capital, and the country was named after Spain\u2019s King Philip II. Over 7,100 islands comprise the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3535' 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":[5426,253,3534,5425,240,407],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5426","tag-independence-day","tag-manila","tag-march-24","tag-philippines","tag-united-states","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\/3535","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=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30310,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/30310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}