{"id":10801,"date":"2016-12-14T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T07:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T07:28:17","slug":"palace-declares-dec-26-and-jan-2-as-special-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/palace-declares-dec-26-and-jan-2-as-special-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace declares Dec. 26 and Jan. 2 as special holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1ang may have just as well become everyone\u2019s Secret Santa as they declared Dec. 26, 2016 and Jan. 2, 2017 as special non-working holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Executive Secretary Menandro Guevarra made the announcement via Proclamation No. 117 to \u201cgive the people full opportunity to celebrate the holidays with their families and loves ones.\u201d December 25 and January 1 are regular holidays, though both fall on a Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10804\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/proc-117-e1481700486428.jpg\" alt=\"proc-117\" width=\"630\" height=\"850\" \/>LONG WEEKEND FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR. Acting Exec. Sec. Menandro Guevarra signed Proclamation No. 117 announcing Dec. 26, 2016 and January 2, 2017 as special non-working holidays. Photo grabbed from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnnphilippines\/status\/808920721577623552\">CNN Philippines on Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The declaration is also expected to \u201cpromote domestic tourism and enables employers to plan their work schedules effectively and efficiently, resulting in improved productivity.\u201d The proclamation also directed the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to issue a circular for the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/853563\/palace-declares-dec-26-jan-2-as-special-non-working-holidays\">Inquirer.net<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIA_NCR\/status\/808930412655427584\">Philippine Information Agency<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnnphilippines\/status\/808920721577623552\">CNN Philippines<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1ang may have just as well become everyone\u2019s Secret Santa as they declared Dec. 26, 2016 and Jan. 2, 2017 as special non-working holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[1405,992,1406,1407,1404],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news-and-current-events","tag-december-26","tag-holiday","tag-january-2","tag-long-weekend","tag-walangpasok"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/holiday-coffee-holidays-christmas.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18241,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/18241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}