{"id":38673,"date":"2013-06-12T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ed_stetzer-turkey_what_to_know_and_how_to_pray\/"},"modified":"2013-06-12T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:31:24","slug":"ed_stetzer-turkey_what_to_know_and_how_to_pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38673","title":{"rendered":"Ed Stetzer&#8211;Turkey: What to Know and How to Pray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a Bible belt over 1,500 years ago, it was in Turkey. However, that changed with the rise of Islam and its eventual conquest of the region. Then, a few centuries later, the area would be at the heart of one of the world&#8217;s most powerful empires, the Islamic Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>After the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey took a road less traveled among majority Islamic nations\u201d\u201dit leaned toward Europe rather than the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has more recently been seen as a moderate Muslim country, though some (including the current President) reject that terminology, and there are troubling signs for the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2013\/june\/turkey-what-to-know-and-how-to-pray.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a Bible belt over 1,500 years ago, it was in Turkey. However, that changed with the rise of Islam and its eventual conquest of the region. Then, a few centuries later, the area would be at the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38673\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,200,144,133,161,426,659,155,151,108,188,453,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-turkey","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38673","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=38673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}