{"id":330365,"date":"2017-06-21T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=330365"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:52:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:52:22","slug":"interior-ministry-declares-june-26-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=330365","title":{"rendered":"Interior Ministry declares June 26 public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has announced Monday, June 26, 2017, as a statutory public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>He said in a statement that\u00a0the public holiday, which is Eid Ul-Fitr,\u00a0must be observed throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Eid-Ul-Fitr is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims in the country started the 30-day fast on Saturday, May 27, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Ramadan is a compulsory tenet of the Islam religion, and followers are encouraged to observe it except for those who have special medical conditions that may prevent them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has announced Monday, June 26, 2017, as a statutory public holiday. He said in a statement that\u00a0the public holiday, which is Eid Ul-Fitr,\u00a0must be observed throughout the country. The Eid-Ul-Fitr is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8466,3],"class_list":["post-330365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-eid-ul-fitr","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}