{"id":7088,"date":"2010-09-07T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T06:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:07:44","slug":"clinton-to-host-iftar-us-army-celebrates-yom-kippur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/clinton-to-host-iftar-us-army-celebrates-yom-kippur\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton to Host Iftar, US Army Celebrates Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a State Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2010\/09\/146797.htm\">press release<\/a>, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will host an <em>Iftar<\/em> on September 7th.\u00a0 The meal breaks the Islamic day-long fast that is continuous for the month of Ramadan.\u00a0 The US Army has also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-slideshows\/2010\/08\/29\/44441-cob-basra-hosts-iftar-celebration\/\">supported <em>Iftars<\/em> in Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, separate official Army press releases, complete with graphic banners,\u00a0announce the upcoming Jewish celebrations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/09\/03\/44718-rosh-hashanah-jewish-new-year-observance-begins\/\">Rosh Hashanah<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/09\/03\/44719-jewish-community-prepares-to-observe-yom-kippur\/\">Yom Kippur<\/a>.\u00a0 The articles explain the meaning behind the holy days.<\/p>\n<p>Religious freedom in America, and its military,\u00a0at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a State Department press release, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will host an Iftar on September 7th.\u00a0 The meal breaks the Islamic day-long fast that is continuous for the month of Ramadan.\u00a0 The US Army has also supported Iftars in Iraq. Meanwhile, separate official Army press releases, complete with graphic banners,\u00a0announce the upcoming Jewish celebrations of Rosh [&#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":[4,270,962,44,39,2,80,10,963],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-churchandstate","tag-clinton","tag-iftar","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-ramadan","tag-religion","tag-yom-kippur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088","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=7088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}