{"id":19861,"date":"2016-06-04T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T09:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19861"},"modified":"2016-06-04T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T09:13:29","slug":"what-is-it-like-to-be-a-practicing-muslim-at-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19861","title":{"rendered":"What is it like to be a practicing Muslim at Ramadan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a practising Muslim, you&#8217;ll be preparing for the start of the month-long Ramadan which this year is expected to begin on Monday. If you&#8217;re not a Muslim, you probably have little idea what is involved.<\/p>\n<p>This is because so much media coverage of Islam is about the small number of fundamentalists and not about the overwhelmingly majority who are not simply law-abiding but dedicated, devoted and disciplined.<\/p>\n<p>Ramadan is always a challenge, since it involves abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset, but this year it&#8217;s going to be one of the toughest in the 33- year cycle as explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jun\/03\/challenging-ramadan-ahead-uk-muslims-long-summer-days\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a Muslim; I am not religious; but I follow the daily experience of one of my Muslim friends on her Facebook page and I see how hard, but how rewarding, it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a practising Muslim, you&#8217;ll be preparing for the start of the month-long Ramadan which this year is expected to begin on Monday. If you&#8217;re not a Muslim, you probably have little idea what is involved. This is because so much media coverage of Islam is about the small number of fundamentalists and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19862,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19861\/revisions\/19862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}