{"id":12578,"date":"2011-08-15T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12578"},"modified":"2011-08-15T01:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T06:08:01","slug":"president-obama-hosts-ramadan-iftar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/president-obama-hosts-ramadan-iftar\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Hosts Ramadan Iftar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though facing some criticism for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/obama-issues-statement-marking-ramadan-n\">&#8216;ignoring&#8217; Easter<\/a> this year, President Obama hosted a White House <em>iftar <\/em>breaking the Ramadan fast last week.\u00a0 From his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/08\/10\/remarks-president-during-iftar-dinner\">statement at the event<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tonight is part of a rich tradition here at the White House of celebrating the holy days of many faiths&#8230;People of different faiths coming together, with humility before our maker, to reaffirm our obligations to one another, because no matter who we are, or how we pray, we\u2019re all children of a loving God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The President recalled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=65003\">the sacrifice of Army Specialist Kareem Khan<\/a>, whom he also highlighted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/mother-of-fallen-soldier-at-white-house-iftar\/\">same event in 2009<\/a>.\u00a0 Khan, an American Soldier and Muslim, was killed in action in Iraq in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though facing some criticism for &#8216;ignoring&#8217; Easter this year, President Obama hosted a White House iftar breaking the Ramadan fast last week.\u00a0 From his statement at the event: Tonight is part of a rich tradition here at the White House of celebrating the holy days of many faiths&#8230;People of different faiths coming together, with humility before our maker, to reaffirm [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,350,52,44,2084,2,43,80,10],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-easter","tag-iraq","tag-islam","tag-kareem-khan","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-ramadan","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}