{"id":6046,"date":"2026-07-12T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:03:29","slug":"kiribati-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6046","title":{"rendered":"Kiribati Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25740\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25740\" class=\"wp-image-25740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Kiribati-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"127\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Kiribati<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kiribati celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. Formerly called the Gilbert Islands, this country became free of British rule in 1979. The 33 atolls, located in the Pacific Ocean, form a small country with an area about three times the size of Washington, DC. Over 100,000 people live on 21 inhabited atolls. Tarawa is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiribati celebrates Independence Day. Formerly called the Gilbert Islands, this country became free of British rule in 1979. The 33 atolls, located in the Pacific Ocean, form a small country with an area about three times the size of Washington, DC. Over 100,000 people live on 21 inhabited atolls. Tarawa is the capital.<\/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":[5342,643,409,253,5712,642,644,5713],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5342","tag-gilbert-islands","tag-great-britain","tag-independence-day","tag-july-12","tag-kiribati","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-tarawa","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\/6046","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=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30118,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions\/30118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}