{"id":2581,"date":"2015-07-20T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2015-07-20T01:24:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T05:24:29","slug":"the-empire-state-goes-green-for-eid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2015\/07\/the-empire-state-goes-green-for-eid.html","title":{"rendered":"The Empire State goes green for Eid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is tradition, the Empire State Building &#8211; the most beautiful skyscraper in the world &#8211; was illuminated in green to mark Eid al Fitr. Of course, in 2015, this is announced via the official twitter account \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Empire State Building will celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Eid<\/a> al-Fitr &amp; mark the end<br \/>of Ramadan with lights in green. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EidMubarak?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EidMubarak<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/UYIQNGfxti\">pic.twitter.com\/UYIQNGfxti<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmpireStateBldg\/status\/622171432873762816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ignore the <a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/122507\/the-reactions-to-the-empire-state-building-s-color-display-islamophobia-at-its-worst\">knee-biter islamophobes<\/a> and just take a moment, as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2015\/03\/proud-to-an-american-proud-to-be-a-muslim.html\">proud American and a proud Muslim<\/a>, to appreciate the beauty of this building and the graciousness of this tradition. <\/p>\n<p>(Also, there are some nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?text=eid%20empire%20state%20building&amp;min_taken_date=1437030000&amp;max_taken_date=1437289199&amp;view_all=1\">photos of the ESB Eid colors<\/a> on Flickr)<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2015\/07\/the-fourth-and-the-first.html\">The Fourth and the First<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is tradition, the Empire State Building &#8211; the most beautiful skyscraper in the world &#8211; was illuminated in green to mark Eid al Fitr. Of course, in 2015, this is announced via the official twitter account \ud83d\ude42 The Empire State Building will celebrate #Eid al-Fitr &amp; mark the endof Ramadan with lights in green.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[470,99,24,471],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamerica","tag-creeping-sharia","tag-eid","tag-islam","tag-nyc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Empire State goes green for Eid - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Empire State goes green for Eid - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As is tradition, the Empire State Building &#8211; the most beautiful skyscraper in the world &#8211; was illuminated in green to mark Eid al Fitr. 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The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}