{"id":24165,"date":"2011-01-24T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_john_mohammed_butt_the_hippy_who_became_an_imam\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:00:12","slug":"bbc_john_mohammed_butt_the_hippy_who_became_an_imam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24165","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) John Mohammed Butt: The hippy who became an imam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years after following the hippy trail to South Asia, John Butt is still living in the region, and still spreading a message of peace and love &#8211; though now as an Islamic scholar.<br \/>\nAs our car turned around the bumpy Indian road, a gleaming white marble minaret came into view. My fellow passenger, John Mohammed Butt, could barely contain his excitement.<br \/>\n&#8220;Can you see it?&#8221; he asks. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the Oxford University of Islamic learning. For me these minarets and domes are just like the spires and towers of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/9369142.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years after following the hippy trail to South Asia, John Butt is still living in the region, and still spreading a message of peace and love &#8211; though now as an Islamic scholar. As our car turned around the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24165\">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":[39,50,42,201,481,426,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-india","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165","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=24165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}