{"id":36784,"date":"2013-01-15T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_u-s-_mosques_hit_by_shortage_of_imams\/"},"modified":"2013-01-15T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:30:12","slug":"rns_u-s-_mosques_hit_by_shortage_of_imams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36784","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) U.S. mosques hit by shortage of imams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spokane Islamic Center wants something mosques all across the country are seeking and can\u2019t seem to find: an educated, bilingual, experienced imam who understands American culture.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report \u201cThe American Mosque 2011\u201d\u009d by University of Kentucky professor Ihsan Bagby, half of all mosques in the U.S. have no full-time staff, and only 44 percent of imams work as paid, full-time leaders.<\/p>\n<p>In Spokane, the Muslim community has been seeking a leader for 18 months and counting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/01\/14\/u-s-mosques-hit-by-shortage-of-imams\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spokane Islamic Center wants something mosques all across the country are seeking and can\u2019t seem to find: an educated, bilingual, experienced imam who understands American culture. According to the report \u201cThe American Mosque 2011\u201d\u009d by University of Kentucky professor<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36784\">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":[39,50,42,209,426,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36784","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=36784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}