{"id":13217,"date":"2009-06-07T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T00:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_letters_listening_to_obamas_message_in_cairo\/"},"modified":"2009-06-07T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T00:11:16","slug":"ny_times_letters_listening_to_obamas_message_in_cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13217","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Letters: Listening to Obama\u2019s Message in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For as long as I can remember, my Muslim identity and my American identity have made me a stranger in both worlds.<\/p>\n<p>In the sensitivities of the post- 9\/11 era, I had to be cautious when asserting my Muslim identity to my fellow Americans who were not Muslim. When visiting cousins in Pakistan, I had to be cautious asserting my pride in being an American.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I have never been so proud to be a Muslim-American. Thank you, President Obama, for bringing our two worlds together, and for helping me merge the worlds within myself.<\/p>\n<p>Moein Khawaja<br \/>\nPhiladelphia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/06\/opinion\/l06mideast.html?hpw\">Read them all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is one: For as long as I can remember, my Muslim identity and my American identity have made me a stranger in both worlds. In the sensitivities of the post- 9\/11 era, I had to be cautious when asserting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13217\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,426,203,616,155,151,667,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217","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=13217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}