{"id":44569,"date":"2014-06-12T21:28:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T21:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_turkeys_rockin_imam_gets_green_light_from_religious_authorities\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T21:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T21:28:48","slug":"rns_turkeys_rockin_imam_gets_green_light_from_religious_authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44569","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Turkey\u2019s \u201d\u02dcRockin\u2019 Imam\u2019 gets green light from religious authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s religious authorities have given the go-ahead for the country\u2019s controversial \u201cRockin\u2019 Imam\u201d\u009d to keep on rocking.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmet Muhsin Tuzer, a Muslim prayer leader from the coastal town of Kas, raised eyebrows last year after he formed the band FiRock and performed as its frontman.<\/p>\n<p>His case \u201d\u201d as far as anyone can tell \u201d\u201d is unprecedented. There have not been any \u201d\u201d to date \u201d\u201d public cases of Turkish imams forming rock bands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/06\/12\/turkeys-rockin-imam-gets-green-light-religious-authorities\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s religious authorities have given the go-ahead for the country\u2019s controversial \u201cRockin\u2019 Imam\u201d\u009d to keep on rocking. Ahmet Muhsin Tuzer, a Muslim prayer leader from the coastal town of Kas, raised eyebrows last year after he formed the band FiRock<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44569\">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":[39,50,42,200,426,155,108,453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569","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=44569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}