{"id":1269,"date":"2007-08-07T01:45:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_npr_young_imam_serves_as_islams_face_to_community\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T01:45:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T01:45:01","slug":"from_npr_young_imam_serves_as_islams_face_to_community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"From NPR: Young Imam Serves as Islam&#39;s Face to Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day is sunny and hot, the hamburgers are on the grill, the kids are jumping on the moon bounce and about 400 people are milling around the brand new Dar Al Noor mosque in Manassas, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors and members of the congregation are here \u201d\u201d even Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is coming. James Dade, a non-Muslim who lives nearby, is manning the grill. As he hands a burger to a Muslim friend, he turns and gives this assessment of his new neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re very friendly, very helpful, very community-oriented,&#8221; he says, noting that his best friend attends Dar Al Noor. &#8220;If there were more Christians like my friend, we wouldn&#8217;t have any problems in this world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=12532168\">Listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day is sunny and hot, the hamburgers are on the grill, the kids are jumping on the moon bounce and about 400 people are milling around the brand new Dar Al Noor mosque in Manassas, Va. Neighbors and members<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1269\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,426,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-other-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}