{"id":87354,"date":"2005-01-20T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a20ff9c9-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2005-01-20T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T05:24:00","slug":"a20ff9da-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a20ff9da-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on the \u2018holidays\u2019 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is much debate over federal vs. local holidays, focused mainly on Martin Luther King Jr. and the need for three local \u201cC\u201d holidays.  Although I agree that MLK Jr. should be honored throughout the United States and its territories, I just wanted to clarify something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve worked stateside for three years now. Of those three years, I reported to work at a school on Presidents\u2019 Day, and my kids were required to attend school as well. This happened in a school district outside a military base.<\/p>\n<p>So, no, federal holidays are not religiously honored throughout the United States. Fact is, if you check school calendars on the Internet, there are schools on the mainland that hold classes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and will also hold classes on Presidents\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p>C. Cepeda<br \/>\nColumbia, SC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much debate over federal vs. local holidays, focused mainly on Martin Luther King Jr. and the need for three local \u201cC\u201d holidays.  Although I agree that MLK Jr. should be honored throughout the United States and its territories, I just wanted to clarify something. <\/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-87354","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\/87354","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=87354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}