{"id":4981,"date":"2026-05-28T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:48:30","slug":"azerbaijan-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4981","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Celebrates a National Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22446\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22446\" class=\" wp-image-22446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Azerbaijan-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Azerbaijan-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Azerbaijan.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Azerbaijan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Azerbaijan celebrates the 1918 founding of the\u00a0Democratic\u00a0Republic of Azerbaijan<\/strong>. According to the <em>CIA World Factbook<\/em>, Azerbaijan is a bit smaller than the state of Maine. This landlocked country is composed of semiarid steppes. Almost 10 million people live in the country, and oil and natural gas provide a fairly solid economy. Baku is the capital. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/za\/discover\/geography\/countries\/azerbaijan-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azerbaijan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan celebrates the 1918 founding of the\u00a0Democratic\u00a0Republic of Azerbaijan. According to the CIA World Factbook, Azerbaijan is a bit smaller than the state of Maine. This landlocked country is composed of semiarid steppes. Almost 10 million people live in the country, and oil and natural gas provide a fairly solid economy. Baku is the capital. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4981' 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":[5312,2233,2234,1506,5580],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5312","tag-azerbaijan","tag-democratic-republic-of-azerbaijan","tag-founding-day","tag-may-28","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\/4981","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=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23128,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions\/23128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}