{"id":16,"date":"2010-06-28T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myislamiclife.wordpress.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-06-28T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T18:16:48","slug":"thinking-i-should-own-my-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/myislamiclife\/2010\/06\/28\/thinking-i-should-own-my-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking I should own\u00a0my\u00a0words\u2026"},"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>I wanted to find a place to sell the prayer outfits that I make for little girls.\u00a0 I wanted to share them with other mothers like me, non muslim, non arabic, hacking her way through an Islamic Life.\u00a0 I wanted to find 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