{"id":948,"date":"2011-04-14T12:07:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/?p=948"},"modified":"2011-04-15T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T23:18:55","slug":"rep-keith-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2011\/04\/rep-keith-ellison.html","title":{"rendered":"Rep Keith Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am accumulating business cards and notes galore, which will fuel my blogging after the forum concludes for quite some time. But it seems all I have time to actually post during the forum is the occasional photo. This one is from last night, when I was honored and privileged to meet Representative Keith Ellison, the first muslim-American elected to Congress. Rep Ellison is an incredibly warm person, effusive and immediately enthusiastic when I told him i was an american Muslim blogger, and insisted on taking a photo with his phone and emailing me a copy. I&#8217;m seriously humbled by his energy and sincerity. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/abde\/5618996169\/\" title=\"I met Rep. Keith Ellison by abde, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5066\/5618996169_95ece35e6b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"I met Rep. Keith Ellison\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Rep Ellison just totally demolished the Republican Budget on the floor of Congress today, by pointing out it doesn&#8217;t turn a surplus until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/121xx\/doc12128\/04-05-Ryan_Letter.pdf\">2040<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Keith Ellison stumps Republican about Ryan budget\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kg5wZbeaLP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am accumulating business cards and notes galore, which will fuel my blogging after the forum concludes for quite some time. But it seems all I have time to actually post during the forum is the occasional photo. 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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\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}