{"id":7608,"date":"2026-10-01T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7608"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:45:23","slug":"nigeria-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7608","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7920\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7920\" class=\"  wp-image-7920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Nigeria.gif\" alt=\"Nigeria\" width=\"207\" height=\"104\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Nigeria<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nigeria celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. In 1960 it became independent from the United Kingdom, and in 1963 it became a republic. The country, home to 175 million Nigerians, is a bit larger than twice the size of California, and Niamey is the capital. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/geography\/countries\/article\/nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria celebrates Independence Day. In 1960 it became independent from the United Kingdom, and in 1963 it became a republic. The country, home to 175 million Nigerians, is a bit larger than twice the size of California, and Niamey is the capital. Children can learn more at: Nigeria.<\/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":[4493,253,2852,1594,5904,172],"class_list":["post-7608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4493","tag-independence-day","tag-niarmey","tag-nigeria","tag-october-1","tag-united-kingdom","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\/7608","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=7608"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30201,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions\/30201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}