{"id":42389,"date":"2019-04-16T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=42389"},"modified":"2019-04-16T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T09:42:37","slug":"foreign-embassies-close-for-holy-week-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/04\/16\/foreign-embassies-close-for-holy-week-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Embassies Close For Holy Week 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are considered public holidays in the Philippines. In light of this, work and operations of most establishments are suspended, including foreign embassies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2017\/03\/13\/expat-guide-what-to-expect-on-holy-week%E2%80%8B\/\" target=\"_blank\">Expats\u2019 Guide: What to Expect on Holy Week\u200b in the Philippines<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42394\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/PhilippinePrimer_JapaneseEmbassy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/PhilippinePrimer_JapaneseEmbassy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/PhilippinePrimer_JapaneseEmbassy-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/PhilippinePrimer_JapaneseEmbassy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/PhilippinePrimer_JapaneseEmbassy-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Japanese Embassy in Manila<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/holy-week-mall-schedules-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holy Week Mall Schedules 2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the foreign embassies in the Philippines that will close offices on April 18 (Maundy Thursday) and April 19 (Good Friday) in observance of Holy Week 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Closed on<strong> April 18 and 19<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US Embassy<\/li>\n<li>Japanese Embassy<\/li>\n<li>British Embassy<\/li>\n<li>Australian Embassy<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Embassy<\/li>\n<li>French Embassy<\/li>\n<li>Korean Embassy<\/li>\n<li>Singaporean Embassy<\/li>\n<li>Spanish Embassy<\/li>\n<li>Royal Thai Embassy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Closed on <strong>April 19 ONLY<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indian Embassy<\/li>\n<li>Italian Embassy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Closed on<strong> April 18, 19, and 22 <\/strong>(Operations resume April 23, Tuesday):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Austrian Embassy<\/li>\n<li>German Embassy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTE: This list will still be updated accordingly.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/04\/15\/list-restaurants-in-the-metro-open-for-holy-week-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">LIST: Restaurants in the Metro Open This Holy Week 2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Sources: Embassies&#8217; official websites and announcement on official Facebook pages<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the foreign embassies in the Philippines that will close offices on April 18 (Thursday) and April 19 (Friday) in observance of Holy Week 2019.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[8675,8676,7275,8674,8510,8670],"class_list":["post-42389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news-and-current-events","tag-embassies-close-for-holy-week","tag-embassies-close-for-holy-week-2019","tag-foreign-embassies","tag-foreign-embassies-close","tag-holy-week-2019","tag-holy-week-suspension"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/us-embassy-e1555402878951.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42389","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=42389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42436,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42389\/revisions\/42436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}