{"id":13196,"date":"2011-09-26T01:18:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T06:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13196"},"modified":"2011-09-26T01:18:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T06:18:26","slug":"us-soldiers-celebrate-ramadan-afghans-look-to-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/us-soldiers-celebrate-ramadan-afghans-look-to-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"US Soldiers Celebrate Ramadan, Afghans Look to Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/us-military-celebrates-ramadan-religious-freedom\/\">variety<\/a> of previous articles have covered the celebration and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/navy-islamic-helo-pilot-on-celebrating-ramadan\/\">recognition<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/us-army-soldier-practices-faith-keeps-his-duties\/\">Ramadan<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/25\/marines-share-ramadan-with-local-afghans\/\">the US military<\/a> in Afghanistan.\u00a0 A recent article noted the same, with an interesting comment from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/76476\/afghans-share-their-culture-with-american-soldiers\">one of the participating Afghans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am very happy to have shared tonight with [American soldiers],&#8221; said Haji Tor Jan, local leader and organizer of villages surrounding [US Camp Nathan Smith.] &#8220;I know it is not your celebration but we are grateful to share it with you&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a bond together and if it\u2019s your Christmas we will do the same celebration for you guys; we will bring you food, music and everything,&#8221; Tor Jan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that <em>would <\/em>be kind of interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A variety of previous articles have covered the celebration and recognition of Ramadan by the US military in Afghanistan.\u00a0 A recent article noted the same, with an interesting comment from one of the participating Afghans. &#8220;I am very happy to have shared tonight with [American soldiers],&#8221; said Haji Tor Jan, local leader and organizer of villages surrounding [US Camp Nathan [&#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":[58,88,108,2254,44,2,2253,80,171],"class_list":["post-13196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-christmas","tag-haji-tor-jan","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-nathan-smith","tag-ramadan","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196","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=13196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}