{"id":812,"date":"2025-12-19T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/?page_id=812"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:04:28","slug":"greek-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/about-greece\/government-and-politics\/greek-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/media\/2026\/03\/6-1-scaled-1-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67627\" style=\"width:750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/media\/2026\/03\/6-1-scaled-1-1024x681-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/media\/2026\/03\/6-1-scaled-1-1024x681-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/media\/2026\/03\/6-1-scaled-1-1024x681-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/media\/2026\/03\/6-1-scaled-1-1024x681-1-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Presidency of the Hellenic Republic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>March 25th is celebrated as the Day of Greek Independence, marking the beginning of the Greek people's heroic struggle against the Ottoman Empire (1821-1830), which ultimately led to the establishment of the independent Greek State. In addition to its national significance, the day is also traditionally observed as the religious feast of the Annunciation.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":800,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-related-children-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-812","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/812\/revisions\/813"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}