{"id":3559,"date":"2026-03-25T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:59:16","slug":"greece-celebrates-its-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"Greece Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9515\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9515\" class=\"wp-image-9515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Greece.gif\" alt=\"Greece\" width=\"168\" height=\"108\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Greece<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Greece celebrates Independence Day.<\/strong> It became free from Turkey\u2019s rule in 1821. The country, composed of a mainland and many small islands, according to the <em>CIA World Factbook<\/em>, is a bit less than the size of Alabama. Almost 11 million people live in Greece. Athens is the capital. About 15 percent of the economy comes from tourism. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/geography\/countries\/article\/greece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece celebrates Independence Day. It became free from Turkey\u2019s rule in 1821. The country, composed of a mainland and many small islands, according to the CIA World Factbook, is a bit less than the size of Alabama. Almost 11 million people live in Greece. Athens is the capital. About 15 percent of the economy comes <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3559' 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":[5434,1510,2409,253,5433],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5434","tag-athens","tag-greece","tag-independence-day","tag-march-25","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\/3559","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=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30311,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/30311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}