{"id":26920,"date":"2018-12-25T22:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T22:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26920"},"modified":"2018-12-25T22:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T22:24:19","slug":"iraq-officially-makes-christmas-day-a-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26920","title":{"rendered":"Iraq officially makes Christmas Day a national holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The Iraqi Cabinet approved a law to mark Christmas Day, December 25, as an official holiday across the country &#8220;on the occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ,&#8221; according to a statement released by the Iraqi government.   <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Cabinet voted on an amendment to the national holidays law in the country that Christmas Day is a holiday for all Iraqis, and not only for the Christian community, as it had been for decades.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Happy Christmas to our Christian citizens, all Iraqis and to all who are celebrating around the world,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IraqiGovt\/status\/1077213857586782208\" target=\"_blank\">Iraqi government said on Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The Iraqi Cabinet approved a law to mark Christmas Day, December 25, as an official holiday across the country &#8220;on the occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ,&#8221; according to a statement released by the Iraqi government. The Cabinet voted on an amendment to the national holidays law in the country that Christmas Day is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}