{"id":51190,"date":"2004-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/long-christmas-holiday-this-year\/"},"modified":"2004-10-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:00:00","slug":"long-christmas-holiday-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/10\/26\/long-christmas-holiday-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Christmas holiday this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year?s official Ministry of Labor calendar bodes well for domestic travel. For starters, Dominicans will enjoy a record long Christmas season as the authorities decided to move to Monday, 10 January the celebration of Epiphany Day, instead of moving it to Friday, 7 January. Thus, school children will be off until 11 January.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the moving of holiday celebration to other Mondays in the year makes for several long weekends in 2005. These are:<\/p>\n<p>Altagracia-Duarte. Friday, 21 January (Our Lady of Altagracia Day) through Monday, 24 January (Duarte Day) for a four-day long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Easter. Good Friday falls on Friday, 25 March, but many will take off from Thursday, 24 March for another long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Day. 1 May Labor Day holiday is moved to Monday, 2 May for a three-day long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi. Starting Thursday, 26 May-through Sunday, 29 May. While Friday is officially not a holiday, many will make it into a four-day long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this year?s and next year?s holidays in the DR, see  http:\/\/dr1.com\/travel\/prepare\/holidays.shtml<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year?s official Ministry of Labor calendar bodes well for domestic travel. For starters, Dominicans will enjoy a record long Christmas season as the authorities decided to move to Monday, 10 January the celebration of Epiphany Day, instead of moving it to Friday, 7 January. Thus, school children will be off until 11 January. Furthermore, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/10\/26\/long-christmas-holiday-this-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,236,3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}