{"id":8161,"date":"2013-01-01T18:28:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2013-01-01T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T18:28:41","slug":"happy-new-year-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/happy-new-year-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year (Or Not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/International-Friendship.jpg\" alt=\"International Friendship\" width=\"220\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/International-Friendship.jpg 220w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/International-Friendship-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20121231-tunisians-urged-spurn-new-year-greetings\">Via AFP:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AFP &#8211; A preacher from the hardline Salafist movement that has achieved growing prominence in Tunisia since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings told Tunisians on Monday that the exchange of New Year&#8217;s greetings was un-Islamic. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sharing the feast days of the infidel or even sending them greetings to mark them is a big sin,&#8221; Sheikh Beshir Ben Hassine said in sermon posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wishing someone a Merry Christmas or a Happy New Year is forbidden by Islam,&#8221; the preacher added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via AFP: AFP &#8211; A preacher from the hardline Salafist movement that has achieved growing prominence in Tunisia since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings told Tunisians on Monday that the exchange of New Year&#8217;s greetings was un-Islamic. &#8220;Sharing the feast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/happy-new-year-or-not\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[804,898,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8186,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions\/8186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}