{"id":50856,"date":"2015-07-17T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_christians_join_muslims_in_fasting_for_ramadan\/"},"modified":"2015-07-17T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:00:14","slug":"wsj_christians_join_muslims_in_fasting_for_ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50856","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Christians Join Muslims in Fasting for Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like 1.6 billion Muslims around the world fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, Jeff Cook has been rising before dawn each morning to have breakfast. He doesn\u2019t eat again until breaking his fast with dinner.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Cook isn\u2019t Muslim, doesn\u2019t have close Muslims friends, and has never been inside a mosque. The Christian pastor from Greeley, Colo., is fasting for the 30 days of Ramadan, which ends Friday, as part of a nascent effort among American Christians to better understand and support Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cook posted a photo of himself on Twitter holding a sign that read: \u201cI\u2019m Jeff\u201d\u201dA Christian in America. I\u2019ll be fasting in solidarity #Christians4Ramadan.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/christians-join-muslims-in-fasting-for-ramadan-1437040802\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like 1.6 billion Muslims around the world fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, Jeff Cook has been rising before dawn each morning to have breakfast. He doesn\u2019t eat again until breaking his fast with dinner. But Mr. Cook isn\u2019t<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50856\">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":[39,50,42,209,100,133,161,426,659,155,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-history","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50856","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=50856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}