{"id":7277,"date":"2012-04-05T05:56:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T05:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2012-04-05T05:56:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T05:56:23","slug":"long-weekend-for-ph-consulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/long-weekend-for-ph-consulate\/","title":{"rendered":"Long weekend for PH consulate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The Philippine Consulate General on Saipan will be closed today and tomorrow in observance of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, both of which are recognized Philippine holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine President Benigno Aquino III&#8217;s declaration of April 21 to 22 as non-working holidays resulted in the long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Consul General Medardo Macaraig, however, noted that the Consulate will be open to the public on Monday, April 9, from 9am to 4pm despite another national holiday.<\/p>\n<p>April 9 is Araw ng Kagitingan or Day of Valor, which marks the fall of Bataan during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough Monday is a holiday, we will strive to open our office since we will be closed for two days this week and we no longer provide consular services on weekends,\u201d Macaraig told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>The Consulate will resume its regular working schedule of 8am to 6pm on Tuesday, April 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter The Philippine Consulate General on Saipan will be closed today and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}