{"id":7901,"date":"2026-10-24T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:23:02","slug":"zambia-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7901","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7922\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7922\" class=\"wp-image-7922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Zambia.gif\" alt=\"Zambia\" width=\"189\" height=\"124\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Zambia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Zambia celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. It was declared free of British control in 1964. The country, larger than Texas, is located in southern, central Africa. One of Zambia\u2019s major industries is copper mining and processing. Over fourteen million people live in Zambia, and Lusaka is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia celebrates Independence Day. It was declared free of British control in 1964. The country, larger than Texas, is located in southern, central Africa. One of Zambia\u2019s major industries is copper mining and processing. Over fourteen million people live in Zambia, and Lusaka 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":[3033,415,409,253,5967,5461,3169],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-3033","tag-africa","tag-great-britain","tag-independence-day","tag-lusaka","tag-october-24","tag-zambia","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\/7901","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=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30211,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions\/30211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}