{"id":5504,"date":"2026-06-17T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5504"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:10:48","slug":"iceland-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5504","title":{"rendered":"Iceland Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22600\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22600\" class=\"wp-image-22600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iceland-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"146\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Iceland<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Iceland celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. It gained its independence from Denmark in 1944. Vikings settled on the island in the ninth century AD. According to the <em>CIA World Factbook<\/em>, Iceland is approximately the size of Kentucky. About 315,000 people live on this hotspot for volcanic activity. \u00a0Less than one percent of the land can be farmed. Reykjavik is the capital. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/geography\/countries\/article\/iceland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iceland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland celebrates Independence Day. It gained its independence from Denmark in 1944. Vikings settled on the island in the ninth century AD. According to the CIA World Factbook, Iceland is approximately the size of Kentucky. About 315,000 people live on this hotspot for volcanic activity. \u00a0Less than one percent of the land can be farmed. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5504' 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":[5606,101,193,253,5637],"class_list":["post-5504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5606","tag-denmark","tag-iceland","tag-independence-day","tag-june-17","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\/5504","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=5504"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30004,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions\/30004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}