{"id":44356,"date":"2014-05-30T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/l_times_meriam_determined_to_stay_a_christian_says_her_husband_daniel_wani\/"},"modified":"2014-05-30T17:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:45:42","slug":"l_times_meriam_determined_to_stay_a_christian_says_her_husband_daniel_wani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44356","title":{"rendered":"(L Times) Meriam determined to stay a Christian, says her husband Daniel  Wani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mr Wani, 27, said his wife was \u201cfrustrated\u201d\u009d by her situation but was committed to maintaining that she was Christian.<\/p>\n<p>He told CNN: \u201cThere is pressure on her from Muslim religious leaders that she should return to the faith. She said, \u201d\u02dcHow can I return when I never was a Muslim? Yes my father was a Muslim, but I was brought up by my mother.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u009d I know my wife. She\u2019s committed. Even last week, they brought in sheikhs and she told them, \u201d\u02dcI\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m not going to change my mind\u2019&#8230;.I\u2019m standing by her to the end. Whatever she wants, I\u2019ll stand by her.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/opinion\/leaders\/article4103654.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription) and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimes\/status\/472358929604034560\/photo\/1\">a picture is there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Wani, 27, said his wife was \u201cfrustrated\u201d\u009d by her situation but was committed to maintaining that she was Christian. He told CNN: \u201cThere is pressure on her from Muslim religious leaders that she should return to the faith. She<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44356\">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":[39,40,50,42,664,202,101,168,144,161,426,114,98,659,155,151,108,346,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-sudan","category-africa","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sudan","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44356","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=44356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}