{"id":7420,"date":"2026-09-30T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:31:30","slug":"botswana-celebrates-botswana-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7420","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Celebrates Botswana Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7542\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Botswama.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7542\" class=\"  wp-image-7542\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Botswama.gif\" alt=\"Botswama\" width=\"189\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Botswana<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Botswana celebrates Botswana Day<\/strong>, the day in 1966 when the United Kingdom gave up control of the country. This landlocked country in southern Africa is fairly prosperous. It is a leading producer of diamonds. Gold has also been found in the country. Because large herds of game still roam the country, tourism also brings in a great deal of revenue. Botswana, home to two million people, is a bit smaller than Texas. Gaborone is the capital. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/geography\/countries\/article\/botswana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Botswana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana celebrates Botswana Day, the day in 1966 when the United Kingdom gave up control of the country. This landlocked country in southern Africa is fairly prosperous. It is a leading producer of diamonds. Gold has also been found in the country. Because large herds of game still roam the country, tourism also brings in <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7420' 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":[4965,415,1825,1826,409,5898],"class_list":["post-7420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4965","tag-africa","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-day","tag-great-britain","tag-september-30","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\/7420","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=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30197,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions\/30197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}