{"id":7307,"date":"2026-09-19T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7307"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:47:30","slug":"saint-kitts-and-nevis-celebrate-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7307","title":{"rendered":"Saint Kitts and Nevis Celebrate Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7532\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7532\" class=\"wp-image-7532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Saint-Kitts-and-Nevis.gif\" alt=\"Saint Kitts and Nevis\" width=\"171\" height=\"116\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Saint Kitts and Nevis celebrate Independence Day<\/strong>. The two islands, located in the eastern portion of the Caribbean Sea, became free of British rule in 1983, but they remain a part of the British Commonwealth. They are about 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC. Sugar was a large part of the economy, but the country has now shifted to tourism and diversified farming. About 51,000 people live on the islands, and Basseterre is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Kitts and Nevis celebrate Independence Day. The two islands, located in the eastern portion of the Caribbean Sea, became free of British rule in 1983, but they remain a part of the British Commonwealth. They are about 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC. Sugar was a large part of the economy, but the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7307' 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":[5297,5864,253,1646,5865],"class_list":["post-7307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5297","tag-basseterre","tag-independence-day","tag-saint-kitts-and-nevis","tag-september-19","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\/7307","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=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30189,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions\/30189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}