{"id":1889,"date":"2018-06-05T17:33:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2018-06-05T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:33:50","slug":"uaes-upcoming-holidays-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/06\/05\/uaes-upcoming-holidays-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE&#8217;s upcoming holidays in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official reference to determine Islamic occasions was the public holidays such as Eid Al Fitr or Haj, is the Hijri Calendar. It is based on the phases of the moon. Hence, the exact dates of Islamic events vary from one Gregorian year to another as they depend on the local sightings of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Federal ministries, public departments and institutions are closed during the public holidays listed below.<br \/>\nHowever, it was stated that\u00a0the given dates are indicative dates only and should not be considered as an official announcement; public holidays\u00a0are announced, by official authorities, once confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<table class=\" alignleft\" style=\"height: 70px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"242\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"contentDiv\">\n<div dir=\"rtl\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Islamic holidays exact dates are subject to moon sighting and may differ from given dates<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official reference to determine Islamic occasions was the public holidays such as Eid Al Fitr or Haj, is the Hijri Calendar. It is based on the phases of the moon. Hence, the exact dates of Islamic events vary from one Gregorian year to another as they depend on the local sightings of the moon. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}