{"id":1563,"date":"2012-07-19T06:05:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T10:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2012-07-19T06:39:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T10:39:06","slug":"oh-allah-this-is-the-month-of-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2012\/07\/oh-allah-this-is-the-month-of-ramadan.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh Allah! This is the month of Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/75\/2008\/08\/tasbihg.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/75\/2008\/08\/tasbihg.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"632\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1031\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ramadan mubarak<\/strong> to everyone starting their fasts today (and advance mubarak to those beginning their fasts tomorrow!). <\/p>\n<p>Still related: My primer on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/08\/ahlan-wa-sahlan-ya-shehre-rama.html\">moonsighting vs calendar debate<\/a> that happens every year, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2010\/08\/my-contribution-to-the-moonsig.html\">my contribution to that debate<\/a> in favor of the calculation method. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramadan mubarak to everyone starting their fasts today (and advance mubarak to those beginning their fasts tomorrow!). 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