<\/a>VATICAN ENQUIRER – COSTA RICA – By presidential decree, the president of Costa Rica has declared the Saturday before Good Friday and Easter Sunday a legal holiday.<\/p>\n

A statement from government house says that the holiday will be called “Good Saturday”<\/p>\n

An source close to the Vatican Enquirer said the rationale for the change is that though many use Semana Santa as a week long holiday, the holiday for the “average” worker is only on Thursday and Friday; now employees will have off “Good Thursday”, “Good Friday” (legal holidays) and Saturday.<\/p>\n

And since Easter Sunday being a Sunday, Costa Ricans will truly have a Semana Santa (Holy Week).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VATICAN ENQUIRER – COSTA RICA – By presidential decree, the president of Costa Rica has declared the Saturday before Good Friday and Easter Sunday a legal holiday. A statement from government house says that the holiday will be called “Good Saturday” An source close to the Vatican Enquirer said the rationale for the change is […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[203],"adace-sponsor":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easter-bunny-eggs.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}