{"id":37229,"date":"2013-02-11T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_as_islam_grows_u-s-_imams_in_short_supply\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T03:00:11","slug":"npr_as_islam_grows_u-s-_imams_in_short_supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37229","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) As Islam Grows, U.S. Imams In Short Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islam in America is growing exponentially. From 2000 to 2010, the number of mosques in the United States jumped 74 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Today, there are more than 2,100 American mosques but they have a challenge: There aren&#8217;t enough imams, or spiritual leaders, to go around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/02\/10\/171629187\/as-islam-grows-u-s-imams-in-short-supply?ft=1&#038;f=1003\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam in America is growing exponentially. From 2000 to 2010, the number of mosques in the United States jumped 74 percent. Today, there are more than 2,100 American mosques but they have a challenge: There aren&#8217;t enough imams, or spiritual<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37229\">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-37229","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\/37229","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=37229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}