{"id":6614,"date":"2026-08-17T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6614"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:43:59","slug":"gabon-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6614","title":{"rendered":"Gabon Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6998\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6998\" class=\" wp-image-6998 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Gabon-Flag.gif\" alt=\"Gabon Flag\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Gabon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Gabon celebrates Independence Day.<\/strong> It gained autonomy from France in 1960. The country, located on the western coast of Africa, is for the most part covered with rain forest. The country\u2019s area is about the same as the area of Colorado, and about 1.6 million people live there. Libreville is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabon celebrates Independence Day. It gained autonomy from France in 1960. The country, located on the western coast of Africa, is for the most part covered with rain forest. The country\u2019s area is about the same as the area of Colorado, and about 1.6 million people live there. Libreville 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":[4705,415,5789,408,1190,253,5791],"class_list":["post-6614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4705","tag-africa","tag-august-17","tag-france","tag-gabon","tag-independence-day","tag-libreville","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\/6614","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=6614"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30154,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions\/30154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}