{"id":8874,"date":"2026-12-18T00:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-12-18T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:40:55","slug":"niger-celebrates-republic-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8874","title":{"rendered":"Niger Celebrates Republic Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8875\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8875\" class=\"wp-image-8875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Niger.gif\" alt=\"Niger\" width=\"168\" height=\"112\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Niger<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Niger celebrates Republic Day<\/strong>. It became a republic in 1958 before it became free of French control in 1960. This landlocked country, located in north central Africa, is a bit less than twice the size of Texas. Niger is mostly covered with deserts and mountains. Almost seventeen million people live in Niger, and Niamey is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger celebrates Republic Day. It became a republic in 1958 before it became free of French control in 1960. This landlocked country, located in north central Africa, is a bit less than twice the size of Texas. Niger is mostly covered with deserts and mountains. Almost seventeen million people live in Niger, and Niamey is <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8874' 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":[4472,415,79,408,4559,4558,163],"class_list":["post-8874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4472","tag-africa","tag-december-18","tag-france","tag-niamey","tag-niger","tag-republic-day","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\/8874","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=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30259,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions\/30259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}