{"id":18168,"date":"2010-02-28T02:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mystical_form_of_islam_suits_sufis_in_pakistan\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T02:53:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T02:53:12","slug":"mystical_form_of_islam_suits_sufis_in_pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18168","title":{"rendered":"Mystical Form of Islam Suits Sufis in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who think Pakistan is all hard-liners, all the time, three activities at an annual festival here may come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Muslim worshipers paid tribute to the patron saint of this eastern Pakistani city this month by dancing, drumming and smoking pot.<\/p>\n<p>It is not an image one ordinarily associates with Pakistan, a country whose tormented western border region dominates the news. But it is an important part of how Islam is practiced here, a tradition that goes back a thousand years to Islam\u2019s roots in South Asia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/26\/world\/worldspecial\/26lahore.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who think Pakistan is all hard-liners, all the time, three activities at an annual festival here may come as a surprise. Thousands of Muslim worshipers paid tribute to the patron saint of this eastern Pakistani city this month<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18168\">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":[39,50,42,201,426,155,343,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-pakistan","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168","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=18168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}