{"id":21307,"date":"2010-08-16T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap-ramadan_holy_month_observance_goes_high_tech\/"},"modified":"2010-08-16T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:40:07","slug":"ap-ramadan_holy_month_observance_goes_high_tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21307","title":{"rendered":"AP&#8211;Ramadan holy month observance goes high tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most ancient traditions of Islam are going high-tech, with a slew of modern offerings for those observing the holy month of Ramadan, which begins today.<br \/>\nCellphone applications such as &#8220;iPray&#8221; or &#8220;iQuran&#8221; offer a beeping reminder of requisite prayer times, while the &#8220;Find Mecca&#8221; and &#8220;mosque finder&#8221; programs help the Muslim traveler in an unfamiliar city find the nearest place to pray.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I saw these applications for the first time, I thought: this is amazing,&#8221; said James Otun, who has several Islamic applications on his Apple iPhone and iPad. &#8220;Whoever came up with this idea: God bless him or her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-08-12-ramadanapp11_ST_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most ancient traditions of Islam are going high-tech, with a slew of modern offerings for those observing the holy month of Ramadan, which begins today. Cellphone applications such as &#8220;iPray&#8221; or &#8220;iQuran&#8221; offer a beeping reminder of requisite prayer<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21307\">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":[39,42,426,155,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307","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=21307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}