{"id":27710,"date":"2026-04-01T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dr-congo-declares-national-holiday-after-reaching-world-cup-for-first-time-in-52-years\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:13:15","slug":"dr-congo-declares-national-holiday-after-reaching-world-cup-for-first-time-in-52-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dr-congo-declares-national-holiday-after-reaching-world-cup-for-first-time-in-52-years\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo declares national holiday after reaching World Cup for first time in 52 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>This is just the second time that DR Congo have reached the World Cup finals, sparking celebrations in Kinshasa.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm296yv05eeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just the second time that DR Congo have reached the World Cup finals, sparking celebrations in Kinshasa. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27712,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27710\/revisions\/27712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}