{"id":155179,"date":"2026-03-16T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155179"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:36:42","slug":"government-declares-every-wednesday-as-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/03\/16\/government-declares-every-wednesday-as-public-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Government declares every Wednesday as public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Daily Mail<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, March 16 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The government has decided to declare every Wednesday as a public holiday in a move to save energy due to the Middle East tensions, the Commissioner-General of Essential Services Prabath Chandrakeerthi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told a special press brefing that the decision was taken at a meeting with the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The holiday will not be applicable for health, ports, water services and the Sri Lanka Customs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The holiday will be&nbsp;applicable&nbsp;to schools, universities and judicial service instituions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Daily Mail Colombo, March 16 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The government has decided to declare every Wednesday as a public holiday in a move to save energy due to the Middle East tensions, the Commissioner-General of Essential Services Prabath Chandrakeerthi said. He told a special press brefing that the decision was taken at a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155180,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155179\/revisions\/155180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}