{"id":348193,"date":"2017-08-26T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=348193"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:47:11","slug":"september-1-declared-as-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=348193","title":{"rendered":"September 1 declared as public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Friday, September 1, has been declared a statutory public holiday by the Ministry of the Interior.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday is to enable the celebration of the Eid ul-Adha.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the sector minister, Ambrose Dery entreated the public to observe the holiday throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Eid ul-Adha is an Islamic religious festival to mark the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to follow Allah\u2019s command to sacrifice his son Ishmael.<\/p>\n<p>The day is celebrated by Muslims\u00a0all over the world and is characterized by the slaughtering especially sheep and cow,and offering of Eid prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Other sacrifice buffalos and sheep to make the day.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration is also known as the Festival of Sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, September 1, has been declared a statutory public holiday by the Ministry of the Interior. The holiday is to enable the celebration of the Eid ul-Adha. A statement signed by the sector minister, Ambrose Dery entreated the public to observe the holiday throughout the country. The Eid ul-Adha is an Islamic religious festival to [&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":[5],"tags":[1010,2413,3,4595],"class_list":["post-348193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ambrose-dery","tag-eid-ul-adha","tag-ghana-news","tag-interior-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348193","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=348193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}