{"id":4578,"date":"2024-04-04T05:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T05:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2024-04-04T05:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T05:38:24","slug":"thursday-april-11-declared-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4578","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 11 declared public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government has declared Thursday, April 11, as a statutory public holiday to mark the celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A statement issued by the Interior Minister, Henry Quartey, urged the general public to observe the day throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe general public is hereby informed that Thursday, April 11, 2024, which marks Eid-ul-Fitr, is a statutory public holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-03-at-22-650x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-03-at-22-650x1024.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-03-at-22-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-03-at-22-768x1211.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-03-at-22-750x1182.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-03-at-22.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eid-ul-Fitr is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to mark the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting (sawm).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The holiday marks the conclusion of the 29 or 30 days of dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The date for the start of any lunar Hijri month varies based on the observation of a new moon by local religious authorities, so the exact day of celebration varies by locality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has declared Thursday, April 11, as a statutory public holiday to mark the celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr. A statement issued by the Interior Minister, Henry Quartey, urged the general public to observe the day throughout the country. \u201cThe general public is hereby informed that Thursday, April 11, 2024, which marks Eid-ul-Fitr, is a statutory public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[200,1179,135],"class_list":["post-4578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-eid-ul-fitr","tag-henry-quartey","tag-interior-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions\/4581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}