{"id":5622,"date":"2026-06-26T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:44:15","slug":"madagascar-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5622","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22613\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22613\" class=\"wp-image-22613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Madagascar-300x200.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"127\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Madagascar<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Madagascar celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. It became free from French rule in 1960. It is an island, the fourth largest island in the world, off the southeastern coast of Africa. It is slightly smaller than Texas. It exports coffee, vanilla, and cloves, and about 23 million people live there. \u00a0Antananarivo is the capital. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/the-world-factbook\/countries\/madagascar\/summaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madagascar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madagascar celebrates Independence Day. It became free from French rule in 1960. It is an island, the fourth largest island in the world, off the southeastern coast of Africa. It is slightly smaller than Texas. It exports coffee, vanilla, and cloves, and about 23 million people live there. \u00a0Antananarivo is the capital. Children can learn <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5622' 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":[4705,408,253,5663,432],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4705","tag-france","tag-independence-day","tag-june-26","tag-madagascar","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\/5622","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=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30012,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/30012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}