{"id":42027,"date":"2017-05-10T12:13:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42027"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:13:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:13:28","slug":"muslim-cook-wanted-stop-hate-started-inviting-strangers-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/muslim-cook-wanted-stop-hate-started-inviting-strangers-dinner.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Muslim cook wanted to stop the hate. So she started inviting strangers to dinner.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42028\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/20140816-IMG_0159.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42028\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42028\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/20140816-IMG_0159-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Al-Aqsa\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gray-black dome of the early-eighth-century al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Behind it is the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, with the Seven Arches Hotel atop the Mount on the right and the spire of the Church of the Ascension on the left. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This, folks, is a brilliant, <em>brilliant<\/em> idea:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/food\/a-muslim-cook-wanted-to-stop-the-hate-so-she-started-inviting-strangers-to-dinner\/2017\/05\/05\/370b96ca-30f2-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.04d2d1fbd91a\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/food\/a-muslim-cook-wanted-to-stop-the-hate-so-she-started-inviting-strangers-to-dinner\/2017\/05\/05\/370b96ca-30f2-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.04d2d1fbd91a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I love it for itself, and I hope it spreads. \u00a0I also think that\u00a0others \u2014 emphatically including <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormons<\/a> \u2014 could use it, or something like it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 This, folks, is a brilliant, brilliant idea: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/food\/a-muslim-cook-wanted-to-stop-the-hate-so-she-started-inviting-strangers-to-dinner\/2017\/05\/05\/370b96ca-30f2-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.04d2d1fbd91a \u00a0 I love it for itself, and I hope it spreads. \u00a0I also think that\u00a0others \u2014 emphatically including Mormons \u2014 could use it, or something like it. \u00a0 Posted from Jerusalem \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;A Muslim cook wanted to stop the hate. 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