{"id":26210,"date":"2011-05-16T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/muslim_students_at_washington_university_are_getting_food_options\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T21:29:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T21:29:55","slug":"muslim_students_at_washington_university_are_getting_food_options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26210","title":{"rendered":"Muslim students at Washington University are getting food options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The word &#8220;cafeteria&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t cut it. The Bear&#8217;s Den in the South 40 dorm complex at Washington University is really more like a collection of high-end mini-restaurants, serving everything from fresh seafood to vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p>And like the student body it serves, the Bear&#8217;s Den has become increasingly diverse, a place that needs to please more palates and ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>So, early this year, when the campus&#8217; Muslim Student Association approached the school&#8217;s food service provider, Bon Appetit, and asked it to provide halal options \u201d\u201d food prepared in accordance with Islamic law \u201d\u201d the company agreed. In April, with the Student Union&#8217;s support, the Bear&#8217;s Den launched a halal food service, making Washington University the first school in the state to offer halal food, according to organizers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/science\/67bf4f93-629b-54bc-912a-41e5c0a2c7f9.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;cafeteria&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t cut it. The Bear&#8217;s Den in the South 40 dorm complex at Washington University is really more like a collection of high-end mini-restaurants, serving everything from fresh seafood to vegetarian. And like the student body<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26210\">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":[39,42,100,111,426,155,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-education","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210","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=26210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}